I was ecstatic to find Concord Grapes at our local farmers market. It is such a delightful fruit to work with and nothing is better than a PBJ with home made jam!
I used 4 pounds of grapes, off the stem and rinsed in cold water.
Ingredients
4 pounds de-stemmed and washed grapes
1/2 cup water
3 and 1/2 cups sugar
Juice of one lemon
Process
1. De-stem and rinse all of the grapes.
2. Add the grapes and water to a non reactive stock pot and bring to a boil.
3. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until they pop open like cranberries and soften. This takes about 20 minutes.
4. Using a food mill and it's finest sieve, grind the grapes into a pulp over a bowl.
5. Return the pulp to the cook pot, measuring how much pulp you have.
6. Using a 2:1 pulp:sugar ratio, add half that amount of sugar. For example, I have 7 cups of pulp, therefore I added 3.5 cups sugar.
7. Add the juice of the lemon and bring to a simmer.
8. Continue simmering until it thickens which was also roughly 20 minutes.
9. Funnel jam into jars, wiping the rims before adding the lids.
10. Process in a hot water bath for ten minutes.
Enjoy!
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