Melba's Jammin' wrote:

In article , zxcvbob
wrote:


I mentioned the tiny pears I picked last week. It's time to do some
thing
with them. I have 5 pounds of 'em.

I see a recipe for crab apple pickles in the BBB. Are they any good, and
what are they good for?


Well, I can see you've never been to a 1950s-type supper club where the
relish plate that was presented on arrival at your table held pickled
crabapples, dill pickles, and black and green olives. That tell you
anything?

Yeah, that I'm not old enough to appreciate pickled crabapples.
I just juiced 'em all with the steam juicer (it took 3 hours, and they
still didn't collapse into mush.)

The batch of jelly I made without pectin would have been really good except
I added too much acid (a heaping teaspoon of acid blend; a half teaspoon
woulda been right) I kept one jar, but I dumped the other 3 into the next
batch I made with pectin. The combined jelly tastes really good, but it's
really cloudy and has a slightly grainy texture -- I used no-sugar pectin
for the first time, with 4 cups of juice and 3 cups of sugar. Apparently
no-sugar pectin is only good for making jam.

So I ended up with 1 jar that looks beautiful but it's too tart, and a
bunch of jars that taste good and look bad.

Best regards,
Bob