After a long night at work and a 4-hour nap I felt refreshed enough to tackle that second batch of crabapple jelly. Same recipe from the Certo package as yesterday, but today I put large sprigs of purple basil into 2 of the half-pint jars. I have no idea if that will work, but I remember something about lavender and strawberries in the past and thought it might be interesting. The purple basil came from the farm share. Usually when there's basil I give it to Stephanie as I'm not too into pesto and I don't really have a whole lot of uses for fresh basil. But the purple basil was pretty and I thought I might find a use for a little bit. I split that bunch with her. And voila, I have a use for it! Purple basil looks really nice in the bubble-gum-pink jelly. Will let you know how it tastes when we open it.
The crabapple jelly itself is really wonderful. Just ask my 9 year old who scraped the pot clean!
As a note-to-self: this is the first time that I put butter in the jelly to reduce foaming. Having made the exact same batch yesterday without the butter, I can say it doesn't do anything at all. No improvement whatsoever.
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