Spiced Cider & Apple Jelly

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This wonderful spiced cider and apple jelly has a rich, warming flavour, making it ideal to serve during the cold winter months. It can be used as a spread, or mix it in to the fillings, and use it to sweeten apple pies and apple desserts.

A clear preserve like this jelly needs a ‘jelly bag’ to strain the fruit juice through – best left overnight. Do not be tempted to squeeze the jelly bag while it is draining, or the jelly will become cloudy.

Spiced Cider & Apple Jelly Recipe

Makes about 1.3 Kg of jam to pot.

Recipe Ingredients:

  • 900g cooking apples (washed and coarsely chopped with skins and cores intact)
  • 900ml sweet cider
  • 2 oranges (juice and pips)
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 6 whole cloves
  • 150ml water
  • approx – 900g jam sugar (with added pectin) warmed

Recipe Method:

Put the chopped apples, cider, juice and pips of the orange, cinnamon, cloves and water in a large pan. Bring it up to the boil, cover with a lid, and simmer for about 1 hour. Leave to cool slightly, then pour the fruit into a scalded jelly bag, suspended over a non-metallic bowl, and leave to drain overnight.

Measure the strained juice into a preserving pan. Add 450g of jam sugar for every 600ml of fruit juice.

Heat the fruit juice and spiced cider mixture, stirring frequently, over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved. Increase the heat and boil, without stirring, for 10 minutes, or until the jelly reaches the setting point (105°C/220°F).

Remove from the heat, and skim off any scum and impurities rising to the surface, with a slotted spoon. Ladle into warmed, sterilized jars, cover and seal. Leave to cool, then label and store in a cool, dark place.

 

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