Damson Jelly

Steps Cook Recipes Damson Jelly using 4 ingredients and 11 steps

Damson Jelly -

You can have Damson Jelly using 4 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients make Damson Jelly

1. It's 1 kg Damsons.
2. You need 250 ml water.
3. It's 1 lemon.
4. You need Preserving sugar without added pectin.

Damson Jelly step by step

1. Wash fruit and remove any stalks and leaves.
2. Put damsons, squeezed lemon juice and water in large saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 40 minutes..
3. This year I bought a jelly bag (what a treat!) but it is fine to use a clean muslin cloth. Pour the cooked fruit into the jelly bag and suspend over a clean bowl..
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6. My jelly bag is threaded onto 2 wooden spoons balanced on an upsidedown stool. I am sure there are better ways but this works..
7. I left it overnight to get every last drop of juice..
8. Measure the volume of juice and using jam sugar without pectin, weigh 500gm to a pint of juice.
9. Put juice and sugar into a large pan over heat and stir to dissolve sugar. Boil rapidly to setting point but take care.... the volume increases and it would be very messy if it boiled over..
10. The jelly is ready when a splodge of the fruit and sugar skins over when put on a saucer in the fridge. This photo is not much help I'm afraid..
11. Pour the lovely liquid jelly into clean jars and label them. And taste the rich sweet jelly..

Damson Jelly - Thank you and good luck