Blueberry Jelly Recipe

    This week I made my first ever thing to be canned!  I made Blueberry Jelly!  It was really easy and turned out so well!
     All you do is take approximately 2 quarts of blueberries and puree them in a blender or food processor.  Then you cook them in a pot on the stove with a half a cup of water.  You bring to a boil and then turn down and simmer for ten minutes. Stir it occassionaly.  Then you strain the fruit through a  cheese cloth lined colander.  Rinse out the pan and put 3.5 cups of juice into the pan with the one box of powdered pectin and a 1/2 tsp of butter. (The butter keeps it from foaming like crazy)  Mix it with a whisk on high heat until you have a rolling boil.  (The boil will not go away when you stir it)  Add the sugar, 4.5 cups,  all at once and mix and bring back to a rolling boil and boil for one minute.  Then take it off the heat and you are ready to add it to your prepared jars.  Well, if you have any foam scrape it off and eat it, it tastes great!  But the foam looks weird in a jar.
      To prepare your jars you make sure they are clean and have them in your large pot that you will water process the jelly in after you put it in the jars. The jars should be kept hot while you are making the jelly, but not boiling them.  The lids and screws can be in a smaller pot on the stove, being kept hot as well.  So, all in all you have 3 burners busy on the stove.
     Pour the jelly into the jars, it makes about 6 cups of jelly.  After that you wipe the lips of the jars off so they are clean.  You put the lids and screws on. But make sure the screws are not super oober tight. Just enough, but not wrenched on.  Then you put the jelly jars into the water bath pot, the one you had the jars in before you added the jelly, and heat the water all the way up to boiling and boil 10-15 minutes depending on your altitude.  Then let them sit in the water for five minutes to rest before removing from the pot. Then when on the counter do not shake or mess with them for 24 hours, so the jelly sets up the right way.  You can make sure the lid has sealed by being popped down.  But don't let anyone man handle them.  Then wahlah you have the best blueberry jelly ever!

It has a deep purple color and is very flavorful!  

    I really do not know why blueberry jelly is not super popular because mine was to die for good!  Holy Spirit inspired good!

The recipe said it made 5.25 cups, but I had originally 5.5 cups worth of jars and had to add another jar (the old smuckers one) so I wouldn't waste any!

      I can't understand why more people do not can and make their own jelly and jam!  It is so simple!  And takes very little time at all!