Every year we pick a bunch of wild black raspberries and make jelly. It
isn't really jelly because most of the pulp is in it, but we get rid of the
seeds. Wild black raspberries have small seeds and many of them pass thru
the finest screen of our Moulinex sieve thingy (they also pass thru the cone
of our juicer which resembles a meat grinder), so we end up using a jelly
bag to strain the output of the Moulinex. The jellybag plugs up on the pulp
(wild raspberries have a lot of pulp too), so we squeeze it to get more
stuff thru. This is a real pain.

What would work better as a means of separating seeds from the juice and
pulp? We really don't want the seeds (they are very gritty), but the rest
of the berry is just fine.

in article , donald girod at
wrote on 4/7/04 3:19 PM:

> Every year we pick a bunch of wild black raspberries and make jelly. It
> isn't really jelly because most of the pulp is in it, but we get rid of the
> seeds. Wild black raspberries have small seeds and many of them pass thru
> the finest screen of our Moulinex sieve thingy (they also pass thru the cone
> of our juicer which resembles a meat grinder), so we end up using a jelly
> bag to strain the output of the Moulinex. The jellybag plugs up on the pulp
> (wild raspberries have a lot of pulp too), so we squeeze it to get more
> stuff thru. This is a real pain.
>
> What would work better as a means of separating seeds from the juice and
> pulp? We really don't want the seeds (they are very gritty), but the rest
> of the berry is just fine.
>
>
Someone, I don't remember who, posted a solution a number of years ago and I
have used it since. Find a nylon strainer ( or plastic) with a mesh that
your seeds won't go through. Use a rounded object ( like a darning
mushroom) that fits the curve of the strainer. Just mush the stuff through
with the rounded part. Takes almost no time and works perfectly.
Ellen
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"donald girod" > wrote:

>Every year we pick a bunch of wild black raspberries and make jelly. It
>isn't really jelly because most of the pulp is in it, but we get rid of the
>seeds. Wild black raspberries have small seeds and many of them pass thru
>the finest screen of our Moulinex sieve thingy (they also pass thru the cone
>of our juicer which resembles a meat grinder), so we end up using a jelly
>bag to strain the output of the Moulinex. The jellybag plugs up on the pulp
>(wild raspberries have a lot of pulp too), so we squeeze it to get more
>stuff thru. This is a real pain.
>
>What would work better as a means of separating seeds from the juice and
>pulp? We really don't want the seeds (they are very gritty), but the rest
>of the berry is just fine.

We also pick a large quantity of wild black raspberries in the fence
rows around our property and use them for jelly. We have a Mehu Maija
steam juicer that does the job for us. Absolutely no seeds.
We also have a couple dozen red currant bushes and a 50/50 mix of the
wild black raspberry juice and red currant juice makes one of my
favourite jellies.

Ross.