Raspberry Pie Filling

I was really wanting to try this...I found the berries hard to fold in without doing a lot of crushing...so take it easy. Original recipe here.

Makes 4 pints

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2/3 cup Clear Jel
2 tablespoons lemon juice
7 cups raspberries

Directions
Prepare canner, lids and bands.

In a large saucepan, combine sugar and ClearJel. Whisk in water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Add lemon juice, return to a boil and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low. Quickly fold in raspberries and return to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently and gently until mixture boils. Remove from heat.

Ladle hot pie filling into hot jars, leaving 1 in headspace. Remove air bubbles. Wipe rim and put lid and bands on.

Place jars in canner, and bring to boil and process 30 minutes.

Apricot Fruit Leather

I made some apricot fruit leather, nothing out of the ordinary, but this year I stored them differently.

I wrapped them up and put them in a freezer bag...my friend shared this idea with me. They store longer in the freezer and you don't have to thaw before eating!

Stawberry Syrup

Strawberry Syrup...new recipe. I was so excited to find this here. This is going to be an awesome recipe to add to my canning! I made a few changes here for me, but you can use the original recipe.



My batch made 5 pints.

6 cups of strawberries (makes 3 1/2 cups pureed)
3 cups water (See directions on divisions)
strip of lemon peel
2 1/2 cups sugar
3 1/2 cups corn syrup
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Puree strawberries in VitaMix. Combine 1 1/2 cups water, strawberrry puree and lemon peel in a medium saucepan. Simmer five minutes, them remove lemon peel. Combine sugar and 1 1/2 cups in a bigger saucepan. Boil to 260 degrees. (we only boiled it until it was between 255 and 260, when we let it get to 260 it crystallized into sugar) Add strawberry juice mixture and corn syrup to boiled sugar. Boil four minutes. Stir in lemon juice. Ladle into hot jars, saving 1/4 inch head space.

Process 10 minutes in canner.