Wine Jelly

Today was a fun day in the kitchen where I made jelly with some wine left from racking our barrel of wine at Tin Lizzie Wineworks over the weekend. The result was a delicious, gourmet-style wine jelly.

I adapted a recipe on our website, Wine Trail Traveler, for creating this yummy wine jelly. The recipe is easy to follow as long as you have the few ingredients required. In addition to the wine, do you have lemon juice, cane sugar and pectin?

The recipe is below. The recipe mentions foam; however, when I made the jelly today no foam was visible. After filling the jars, the jelly was just beginning to jell on the sides of the pan.

Wine Jelly

Ingredients

3½ c of wine
½ c lemon juice
1 package of Sure Jell (or other equivalent pectin)
4½ c granulated sugar
6 half-pint (or 3 pint) mason jars with lids and rings

Directions

1. Wash jars, lids and rings. Place jars in a boiling water bath and boil for ten minutes. Keep jars warm until filled with jelly.

2. Measure 3½ cups of the wine and place in a minimum of a 5-quart pan. Consider using a larger than 5-quart pan since the rapid boiling will cause the foam to almost overflow in a 5-quart pan.

3. Add the lemon juice and the box of Sure Jell.

4. Bring this mixture to a boil.

5. Slowly add the sugar while continuously stirring.

8. Bring the mixture to a full rolling boil and boil for 1 minute.

9. Remove from the heat and skim off foam.

10. Laddle into Mason jars to ½ inch of the top. Clean the rim of the jar with a damp cloth. Place on the jar lid and ring.

11. Place the jars into a water bath. Cover the jars with at least ½ inch of water and boil for five minutes. Remove the mason jars from the water and place on a cooling rack.

Note: Instead of processing the jars in a boiling water bath, you can fill the mason jars, let them cool and place in the refrigerator.

A little of the jelly was leftover. It was delicious with notes of a Bordeaux wine coming through. Of course, since it is a jelly, it was very sweet. Perfect for crackers or toast.

Enjoy experimenting with wine in your kitchen. Check out the other recipes on Wine Trail Traveler.

Cheers!
Kathy