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Pepper Jelly

Created by: Sarah Mock
red hot pepper jelly recipe square image
prep time10 minutes
cook time20 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
total time40 minutes
Makes 48 Tablepsoons

Ingredients

  • 8 red or green Jalapenos
  • 5 large bell peppers
  • 3 Tablespoons Pectin (Classic)
  • 5 Cups Sugar
  • 2 Cups Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 1 Teaspoon Butter

Instructions
 

  • To protect your hands put on food-safe gloves. 
  • Wash the peppers, remove stems, and most of the seeds and white membranes from the peppers. 
    8 red or green Jalapenos
  • Finely chop the peppers in a food processor.
  • Add your peppers, vinegar, pectin and butter to a large nonreactive pan, such as stainless steel or enamel cast iron. 
    8 red or green Jalapenos, 3 Tablespoons Pectin, 2 Cups Apple Cider Vinegar, 1 Teaspoon Butter
  • Bring the mixture to a rolling boil. Once it reaches a rolling boil, turn off the heat.
  • Skim any foam that may have gathered on the surface.
  • Add sugar. Stir well and let it reach a rolling boil and boil three minutes. A rolling boil is a boil that can not be calmed when stirred.
    5 Cups Sugar
  • After the 1 rolling boil, turn off the heat and skim off all foam that may have formed.
  • Remove a hot jar 
    from the large boiling water pot.
  • Ladle the pepper jelly into 8oz jars
     filling to ¼in from the top.
  • Wipe the rim
     of the jar with a clean damp cloth, cover with new lids and twist on screw bands tightly.
  • Using a jar lifter, place jars into canner. Water should cover jars completely.
  • Remove another jar from the hot water canner and repeat until all jars are filled.
  • Bring water to boil and process 5 minutes. * If you are boiling at an altitude higher than 1,000 feet above sea level, you will need to adjust boiling water processing time.
  • Allow the jars to sit on a protected surface to cool completely. Jars will indicate they have properly sealed with a little popping sound of the lid flexing as the jars cool.
  • When jars are completely cooled, check seals by pressing centers of lids with finger. (If lid springs back, lid is not sealed and refrigeration is necessary.)

Notes

How do you serve hot pepper jelly?

This is my favorite way to serve hot pepper jelly.
  1. Spread a water cracker with cream cheese and dab on a bit of pepper jelly. Don't want to get all fancy with the spreading and dabbing?
  2. Plop a brick of cream cheese on a plate and pour the jelly over it. Stick a butter knife in it and lay a package of crackers next to it. Your guests will go nuts over this treat!

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