My fireweed jelly experiment. Turned out fantastic! I think it's best on a cracker with cream cheese & a slice of jalapeño pepper :)
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| 1. Collect fireweed flowers |
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| Buds at the top are ok. |
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| The recipe I used. |
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| 2. Assemble ingredients. From what I've gathered, it's important to use powered as opposed to liquid pectin otherwise the jelly won't set properly. As it was, it still took 2 days for my jelly to set because, as you can see from the picture, my pectin was three years expired... oops. Still worked though. |
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| 8 cups of packed fireweed blossoms. |
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| 3. Sanitize jars. Soap, water, boil, whatever you do to ensure the jelly is going into nice clean jars. |
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| 4. Add water until water level is just below the top of flowers & boil until the blossoms are a sickly pale grey. |
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| Boiling out the color & flavor of the blossoms results in this beautiful deep hued purple liquid. |
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| 5. Strain. I didn't have cheesecloth so I improvised w a flour sifter. |
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| Add assembled ingredients and boil. |
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| Can & Process. |
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| Ta dah! The finished product. |
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| Alaskan Summer in a jar. |
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