Currant Jelly - our first attempt at making jelly

I've never made jams or jelly's before and either has Clayton. Well Yesterday we did (well He did most of it) You should have seen him pick these berries. Our neighbors were nice enough to tell us we could stop by and pick all we wanted of their Red Currant berries. They don't like them and would have just gone to the birds...so we thought why not! Well we each had our buckets and I swear he picked two or three times as much as me and he didn't want to stop either. He said "When I was growing up and picking berries on my Grandma's farm, I was told never to come back without a full bucket of berries" and well I think that's stuck in his head.

So we got enough for one batch of jelly and had some extra which we saved for juice. Clayton had just bought this really neat apparatus which seeds and juices and dices and or chucks all sorts of stuff, I think it even does pasta sauce...and he was dying to use it. And this is how we used it....

Here are the berries we picked...

and here is Clayon having fun with his new apparatus (juicer, de-seeder etc.)

and see how it juices so easily

and spits out all the stems, seeds and leaves....

Here is the bowl of juice it made (this is not all of it there was more)

and this is the juice being cooked...just starting to boil...


and here are the first set of jars, it made more than it said...
hummmmm like 4 extra jars....

the recipe we followed said it would only make nine jars...well it made 12 (would have made 13 or 14) but we only bought twelve jars....

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makes me worry...just a little....that we did something wrong...and it wont set correctly.

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I'm really hoping not, because when we tasted this; OMG it was so good...

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We have already decided that if it does not set properly we are using it as syrup for our mickey mouse waffles we have them all the time. Yes Clayton's first waffle maker is shaped as mickey mouses head...cute huh?

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