Eating this year’s crab apple jelly

Nik — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:42:25 +0000

So last weekend I made some crab apple jelly. Quite a lot of it as it turns out. After a day of letting the juice of our apples drip through a muslin bag (and some of those apples really were ‘ours’ as they were grown in our garden) we ended up with far more juice than we needed.

No worry – I made it all into jelly as I couldn’t see it go to waste, and the result was sixteen pots, plus one ramekin and a rice bowl full of the most beautiful, delicate pink jelly.

They look quite orange in that picture, but believe me – when you spread them on toast they are really a lovely rose colour.

We had the first of it on toast this morning and it confirmed what I always believed: crab apple jelly is my favourite sweet toast topping of all time (alright – second favourite after marmalade).

Yum.

(If you want to make your own, click here for Blagger’s crab apple jelly recipe)

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Eating this year’s crab apple jelly