5 of the Best ways to preserve grapes!
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2021
- #Grapes #CityHomesteadLiving,#Foodpreservation
Do you find yourself short on time when harvest season comes? Well I have some tips that could save you time and Preserve your food.
5 of the Best ways to preserve grapes!
In this video you will learn five of the Best ways to preserve grapes for future use.
First you'll learn two great ways to produce the Best tasting grape jam.
Next you will discover two ways to freeze whole grapes for later processing and finally you'll see how to make grape sauce to freeze and reserve for making grape products like jam and fruit roll-ups.
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Grape Jam Recipe:
FOR EVERY 2 (8 OZ) HALF PINTS, YOU WILL NEED:
1 1/3 cups
Concord Grapes - Prepared per below
1 1/2 Tbsp
® Ball RealFruit™ Classic Pectin amzn.to/3ZWYl14
Granulated sugar
1 2/3 cups
TRADITIONAL
1 cup
REDUCED SUGAR
To Prepare Grapes
1. Remove stems. Pinch grapes with fingers to separate skins and pulp. Finely chop skins; (or simmer with skins on) set aside. (As you know you can skip this step with a potato ricer or food mill)
2. Add 1 cup water to pulp and (skins on) simmer 5 minutes, covered.
3. Sieve to remove seeds.
4. Add finely chopped skins to pulp, if desired.
Make Your Jam
1. PREPARE waterbath canner, jars and lids according to manufacturer's instructions, if preserving.* Prepare and measure ingredients for recipe. ®
2. COMBINE prepared fruit and lemon juice (if required) in an 8-quart saucepan. Gradually stir in Ball RealFruit™ Pectin. Add butter, if using. Bring mixture to a full rolling boil that cannot be stirred down, over high heat, stirring constantly.
3. ADD entire measure of sugar, stirring to dissolve. Return mixture to a full rolling boil. Boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim foam if necessary.
4. PACK based on Enjoy Now or Fresh Preserve steps below.
*If you are preserving at an altitude higher than 1,000 feet above sea level, adjust processing time as indicated by the altitude chart (www.freshpreserving.com/adjus....
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Thanks so much for the info!! Your little helpers look happy to assist you, and your chicks look super happy to help in cleaning up the left overs. :)
You are so welcome! Thank you for the kind comment. We try to make all our systems work together. The littles love doing projects and the youngest doesn't want us doing videos without him. We're going to be harvesting again soon and this time we're going to make juice from some of our grapes. Be sure to Subscribe so you'll get notified when our videos publish.
As always, Happy Homesteading Adventures
Yours,
Tammy
Congratulations ! BRASIL,
Keep posting videos😊
I absolutely 💯 will! Thanks for watching and keeping the conversation going in the comments.
Yours,
Tammy
had a coworker complain the grapes he was buying went bad too fast
and could do nothing. i knew where he was coming from.
this has been years past.
here recently i was reliving this problem.
so I tried this, and it seems to work fine.
i wash the grapes in cold fresh water,
remove the stem and cut them in half.
grapes keep fine
That is a great tip! Thanks for sharing that with the community.
very much a pleasure@@CityHomesteadLiving
Just a thought. Using a blender will chop the seeds. This may make your juice more bitter.
You can pulverise the grapes with the end of a wooden rolling pin, then use a potato masher when squashier.
That's a great idea! Thank you for sharing your tip! I love trying new things so the next time I am processing grapes, I will give it a try, and I'll post my results.
Yours,
Tammy
Hello, I have a question! Doesn't the immersion blender break up some of the seeds? It seems that these seed shards (and seedy taste?) would then be able to pass easily through the mill or ricer and I assume that this changes the character of the jam? It doesn't look like your jam contains seed fragments, and I have to conclude that you definitely still enjoy the flavor of the jam after the seeds have been immersion-blended! I'm curious to know your thoughts on this, bc it's clear that my 'fears' about the seeds are probably invalid, but I'm super interested to hear perhaps why! =) I have a bunch of concords right now after a long afternoon of harvesting from very high up with pole loppers etc, and I'm eager to preserve them somehow. I will continue to research here on youtube, and get that done today. But your video made me curious! Thank you for sharing this video =)
Greetings! Thank you for sharing your questions in the comments.
The immersion blender doesn't seem to break up the seeds too much. I mostly use it to break up the skins. (Which are softer) you can skip this entirely if you have concerns, and use a potato ricer or food mill to extract the seeds.
I hope you have a great success with your preservation.
Be sure to let the community know how you did it in the comments. We all have a hunger for learning and I love learning from others in this community.
As always,
Happy Homesteading Adventures!
Tammy
Thanks for the tips!! New to preserving grapes, and we just moved to a homestead with a vineyard. Needed a quick video to give me some ideas!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoy more of our channels tips and Homestead hacks!
Yours,
Tammy
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wow, isnt there a way to preserve the skins? Thats where all the antioxidants are!
Hey thanks for commenting, I love it when we can keep the conversation going!
To answer your question, much of the skins do end up going through the sive and into the finished product. However, you can slip the skins and save them to process later. You could dehydrate and powder them. Then add them to your jams or any other grape product you make.
This is a great idea that we might have to do a video about.
interesting you mentioned dehydrating them, thats exactly what i was thinking. Thankyou.@@CityHomesteadLiving
You're welcome, thanks for your valuable input! You know how much others benefit from the content in the comments.
Yours,
Tammy