clean, rinsed and cotton pillow case worked for us one year...no ill
effects.

"Matt Shepherd" > wrote in message
om...
> Long story short: I live in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where apparently
> nobody does any home canning. At the very least, I can't find any
> stores that sell jelly-making equipment, the local wine equipment
> store doesn't stock anything but kit stuff, and I don't feel like
> making the 45-minute trek out to Wal-Mart.
>
> So I tried making a "jelly bag" out of cotton cheesecloth to make a
> pear wine with, and it has completely disintegrated. I now have a soup
> consisting of pear chunks, chopped golden raisins, small bolts of
> soggy cheesecloth and fermenting yeast.
>
> Question A: if I wait the requisite week to get the flavour out, then
> transfer to a second primary, would straining through my last
> remaining piece of cheesecloth harm anything in any way?
>
> Question B: Is there any great danger in just letting everything float
> in the mix for the week until then?
>
> Question C: Any good online resources for ordering &?%$ vinyl jelly
> bags? I'm sick of trying to explain the process to 18-year-old
> Francophone store clerks who think that jelly is magically born when
> two jars of jelly love each other very, very much...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
> www.man-man.org