another busy day on the homestead and i'm gonna share with you today what i'm
working on it's one of those days where i have a
lot of odd jobs that I have to get finished but the first job I really need
to work on is canning some more my clementines
show you some of the things that I'm working on
so the clementines I peeled all of them and these are the beautiful skins we let
these air dry and when they are very very dry then I'm going to blend them I
add them to my laundry soap I add them to my homemade lye sub I am for
potpourri and all kinds of things but I'm going to show you the deal I got
today so I was able to get clementines for 99 cents a bag and I got two bags of
them and I'm going to make Clementine jelly so simple and so easy but it
really has to get done the first thing I did was I peeled all of my clementines
and I cut them up in small pieces this is what they look like we're going to go
ahead and I'm going to add my ingredients to this 18 cups of the
chopped up clementines we're going to add two and a half cups of water now
we're going to cook this for about 15 to 20 minutes now we're not going to let it
boil but we're going to bring it to a simmer and this will welt all of this
clementines or tangerines or even oranges you can
add any of these different kinds of citrus so then we're going to add 1/8 of
a teaspoon of baking soda to this water for me an eighth of a teaspoon is about
a pinch of baking soda we're going to do this very very well
while the clementines are simmering I'm going to go ahead and get some other
chores finished and I'll get back to you in just a moment now I took my stick
blender and I blended it up real fine and now what we're gonna do is we're
gonna add three tablespoons of lemon juice
it's one lemon cut up or three tablespoons of lemon juice so I don't
have a lemon so I'm going to use the lemon juice now we're going to go ahead
and we're going to add six cups of sugar
and I'm using half cups so we're gonna have 12 of these we're gonna give it a
good stir and we're gonna keep simmering this until it comes just close to a boil
and then we're going to add one box of liquid pectin which would be two pouches
of the liquid pectin we're going to go ahead and we're going to cook this down
a little bit to evaporate some of the liquid so I see one seed in here so
these were seedless but every once in a while you will find the seed in these
clementines we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna add our pectin
now sometimes I will notice that the pectin will not solidify until maybe
even a couple days after I make this jelly I normally do not have a problem
with my jelly not setting up many people complained that the jelly doesn't set up
and I don't seem to have that problem and I'm very thankful for it now this
would be another jelly for me for a year at least because I'm the only one that
really eats jelly and I eat it every morning on a bagel so now we're gonna do
is we're going to bring this up to a boil and once it's up to a boil we're
going to boil it for one minute and then we can start putting it in our jars it
is so good it would be really good even as a glaze
for own chicken amazing I will be making this every year started as some
clementines that were laying around in the refrigerator that weren't very sweet
and turned into an amazing Jam mmm that is so good and you know what I'm gonna
be using this for Lots recipes be perfect for chicken so we're gonna throw
our jars up just like that
I'm gonna fill all these jars up and then you put them into the canner
boiling water bath for ten minutes and I'll show you what it looks like when
they're all sealed this isn't a plus recipe take care everyone we'll see you
tomorrow bye