Any hope of fixing this? I just did a couple batches of green pepper jelly
but it set up like glue. Can this be saved? I've always had more problem
with getting the jelly to set...now...wow what a set..it's like taffy. Would
adding some liquid and reprocessing help....?? Advice..???


Thanks ~~!!!

LynneBo wrote:

Any hope of fixing this? I just did a couple batches of green pepper jelly
but it set up like glue. Can this be saved? I've always had more problem
with getting the jelly to set...now...wow what a set..it's like taffy. Would
adding some liquid and reprocessing help....?? Advice..???

Thanks ~~!!!


You could add a little bit of water or apple juice and reprocess them.

When I get a jam or jelly that is set too tight, I just stir a
tablespoon of hot water into the jar and let it sit overnight, and that
usually loosens it up nicely -- but it doesn't help if you want to give
them as gifts or enter them in the fair, etc.

It would be interesting to try putting the unopned jars it in a BWB for
20 minutes or a pressure canner at 5 pounds for 10 minutes and see if
that breaks down the gel. Ordinarily I'm a big fan of not sterilizing
jars, but I sometimes sterilize my jars first and then only process
jelly for 5 minutes because they often don't seem to set well after 10
minutes of processing. (it probably means the jelly was marginal to
begin with, but I hate ending up with 5 or 6 jars of syrup and a half a
jar of jelly (the leftover dab that I didn't process))

-Bob

In article _kTad.14330$Ia5.7321@edtnps89, "LynneBo"
wrote:

Any hope of fixing this? I just did a couple batches of green pepper
jelly but it set up like glue. Can this be saved? I've always had
more problem with getting the jelly to set...now...wow what a
set..it's like taffy. Would adding some liquid and reprocessing
help....?? Advice..???



Thanks ~~!!!

I don't know, Lynne. Sorry. I think if you add liquid to it, you'll
just get syrup - if I'm reading your problem right. If it were a matter
of being to stiff (more like really tough Jell-o), heating small
quantities would soften it up and make it easier to spread. But it
doesn't sound to me like that's your problem.
Can we see your recipe?
--
-Barb, www.jamlady.eboard.com Updated 10-09-04; Sam I Am!.
"Peace will come when the power of love overcomes the love of power."
-Jimi Hendrix, and Lt. Joe Corcoran, Retired; St. Paul PD, Homicide Divn.

Or sell it to those guys on CSI who shoot bullets into it. Just a
thought...

Pastorio

Large chuckle!

Craig