Wild sandhill plum jelly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- After picking the wild sandhill plums, time to make some good old fashioned sandhill plum jelly.
Wash the plums, by rinsing multiple times. Even though their wild and true organic, they still have small bugs and dirt on them. Not necessary to remove them stems, they will be strained. Add plums to large stock pot, cover plums with water, for example, if I have 3" of plums in the pot, I add at least 3" water over the plums. Let simmer, I usually simmer 2-4 hours, to cook down the plums and make the juice more concentrated. Strain
6 c plum juice
1 pkg SureGel
8 c sugar
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Yay! You are back again & looking good!
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Glad to see you back! The jelly looks delicious!
What brand of Pectin do you use?
Beautiful plumes!
I wish they grew in Wisconsin. Right now im making black raspberry jelly, blueberry lime jam anf taspberry jam. Still waiting to see what God will bless me with which grow wild along roadsides.
That jelly is so pretty!!! Blessings from north central Wisconsin
You're so blessed with so many wild berries there. We visited WI several years ago, such a BEAUTIFUL state! The Old Farmer said if we were to ever move, he'd like to go to WI. I can't remember the name of the town we spent several days near. My aunt has a cabin on a lake. I was so surprised to learn that they grew cranberries there! We were there during the cranberry festival - so fun! And I always wanted to go back & go to the Lumberjack competition
Great video.
Thank you
It looks delicious. We have Japanese plums here. You can make jelly or jam with them, but I’ve never tried it. Good to see you, Barb😊💕
I've never heard of those, I'll have to look them up.
Hi! I enjoyed this video. I can a lot and today I am picking cherries. Take good care!
Picking sandhill plums is like picking cherries. You pick & pick, then get a cup or 2 😂
How do you remove the cherry pits? I’ve wondered if I could use a cherry pitter & make a cake or pie with these plums
@@theoldfarmerswife5915 I have actually only cooked them and then I put them through the sieve and I keep the juice for my husband and I throughout the winter and it has some pulp in it which is good for the digestion and I freeze it without any sugar and I just do 50-50 when I reconstituted. It doesn't even really need sugar it tastes pretty good the way it is but hubby likes a little sugar in it so in his glass I just sprinkle a little and stir. One year I did make what was supposed to be Cherry jelly turned out to be Cherry syrup which is okay too because that can be used over ice cream could be used as a juice in a reconstituted form, it's canned. I like the idea of a steam canner I'm going to have to look into that. I have never used a cherry Pitter or taken the pits out kind of a lot of work. But maybe if you wanted for throwing in a cake or muffins or something it wouldn't be too much work to just cut them in popped up it out. Oh I have also made cherry wine which is so good second to raspberry! I hope that doesn't offend anybody.
Beautiful.
I love my steam canner! Just like yours! My Mom used to make sandhill plum jelly & butter. It was never my favorite but know we had some adventures picking them back in the day. What beautiful jelly Barb!
Aren't the steam canners the best! Save so much time & $$. Picking Sandhill plums, is not my favorite chore. So hot, buggy, poky stems, rattlesnakes LOL!
Your jelly is gorgeous. I have never heard of or seen sandhill plums. I know you mentioned "bitterness" when you were speaking of all the sugar you need to add, so I assume you just can't pull one off the tree and eat it immediately?
They look amazing! I'm sure they're great on toast for breakfast❤
We use the open kettle method with our wild jells. Also, I think the pectin has changed, because we always boiled until the jell sheeted from the spoon. We've had more fails with the sheeting method the past couple of years, which never never happened before, so we'll have to use the one-minute method, I guess.
Looks beautiful! Here in MI we are in full blueberry season
I’m jealous 😉😊. We’re unable to grow blueberries here, due to our soil.
How is the garden doing?
Not very good, but MUCH better than last year LOL I need to do a garden tour. Our drought was so bad, that most of the things I planted in early spring, potatoes, onions, garlic (planted last fall) all did awful. It was bone dry when I planted & then we got rain, a LOT of rain. but it was too late for those crops
Oh jeez. The chiggers in Kansas are more plentious and annoying than the snakes are...lol! Wineberry jelly is the prettiest i have seen, second is sandhill plum.
Not good to eat those plums right from the tree?
You can eat them, but they’re very bitter. If they get very ripe & soft, they’re fairly sweet.