nannyconnie
(member)
03/05/2008 19:48
Calling all cooks

Do any of you lovely ladies have a recipe for Mint Jelly,preferably one that I can make now with all the fresh mint I have in the garden, but keep to use later when the fresh is all gone?

Sealover
(member)
03/05/2008 21:48
Re: Calling all cooks

Can't help with a recipe, Nannyconnie, but if you good Mint Jelly recipes there seem to be quite a number and they mostly seem to include apple - I suppose to make it set.

I haven't got mint in my garden, but when I buy fresh mint, there is usually more than I need, so I freeze it and it is fine for using in any recipes. It's great for using in mint sauce as you can crumble it easily when it's frozen.

Hope this helps.


annemari
(member)
03/05/2008 23:21
Re: Calling all cooks

This is one that my granny use to make and also my mum.Found the recipe in granny's handwritten recipe book.

Recipe 1:-Mint Jelly

Green cooking apples, or apple peelings and cores
Water to cover
Sugar Fresh mint

Method:-Wash the apples and cut into pieces or use the peelings and cores of apples of which the flesh has been used for other purposes,e.g.bottled apple pulp. Put into a preserving and cover with water. Stew intil the fruit is soft and broken. Test for pectin. Boil a few well washed sprigs of mint with the apples. Strain the juice and measure it. Allow 1 lb of sugar to each 1 pint of juice,add finely-chopped mint(1 level teaspoonful to each 1 pint of juice)and boil until setting point is reached. Remove the scum,pour into heated jars and cover.
Note:A few drops of green vegetable colouring can be put in to improve the colour.

Recipe 2:-Mint Jelly (Good Housekeeping Cookery Book.1972)

6 lb of cooking apples
2 1/4 pints of water
A bunch of fresh mint
2 1/4 pints vinegar
Sugar
6-8 tbsps.chopped mint
Green colour (optional)

Wash and roughly chopthe apples,put in a large pan with the water and bunch of mint and simmer until reallysoft and pulped. Add the vinegar and boil for 5 minutes. Strain through a jelly cloth. Measure the extract and return it to the pan with 1 lb.sugar to every pint of extract. Stir until the sugar has dissolved and boil rapidly until a "jell" is obtaaineds on testing. Stir in the finely chopped minnt and a few drops of colouring,if like. Skim,pot and cover in the usual way.

Hope one of this is of some help to you, nannie connie.

Best wishes
annemari


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