{"id":3096,"date":"2013-03-28T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2013-03-28T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:00:32","slug":"q-and-a-adding-jell-o-to-jam-and-chicken-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/03\/28\/q-and-a-adding-jell-o-to-jam-and-chicken-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Adding Jell-O to jam and chicken skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adding Jell-O to jam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I too canned strawberry jam that did not thicken. I was very glad to see your advice about adding strawberry Jell-O to each jar as I open it. Does this work with other fruit jams (peach, etc)? Can you just add the Jell-O at the start of the process instead of pectin?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Judith Almand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Brandon, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, adding Jell-O works for other fruit jams\/jellies. No, you can&#8217;t add the Jell-O instead of pectin. However, there are jam recipes that use Jell-O if you care to Google them. If you have several jars of failed jam, you can re-do them. To do this, measure no more than 8 cups of jam. For each cup, measure 1\u00bd tsp. powdered pectin, I Tbsp. water, and 2 Tbsp. sugar; set sugar aside. Combine pectin and water in a large pot and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. Add the un-jelled jam and sugar, stirring to mix well. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. Boil hard for 30 seconds. Remove from heat. Ladle hot jam into hot jars, leaving \u00bc inch of headspace. Place new, hot, previously simmered lid on jar and tighten ring firmly tight. Process in a boiling water bath canner for the full time required for the original recipe. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chicken skin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I stripped the skin off chicken that I cooked tonight. Now I have a bowl of skin (raw). Seems a shame to throw it away but what can be done with it? No one wants to eat it but can I give it to pigs or chickens?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gail<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Palisade, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can give it to your pigs or chickens. For safety&#8217;s sake, you probably should boil it until &#8220;done&#8221; to prevent possible bacterial infection. Both chickens and pigs naturally dig up and catch insects and small mammals and eat them (raw). &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding Jell-O to jam I too canned strawberry jam that did not thicken. I was very glad to see your advice about adding strawberry Jell-O to each jar as I open it. Does this work with other fruit jams (peach, etc)? Can you just add the Jell-O at the start of the process instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}