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Homemade Grape Jelly

The perfect quick and easy homemade jelly you can make with bottled juice.

Keyword DIY Grape Jelly, Fruit Jelly, Grape Jelly, Homemade Grape Jelly
Author Sunup to Sundown

Ingredients

  • 8 cups grape juice no sugar added (64 oz bottle of juice)
  • 2 packages fruit pectin
  • 9 cups pure cane sugar

Instructions

  1. Combine grape juice and pectin a saucepan. Stir with a whisk to get rid of any lumps. Bring to a boil.

  2. Do NOT add the sugar before you bring the pectin to a boil. I've done this way too many times, and it causes the jelly to not gel.

  3. After the pectin/juice mixture has come to a boil, stir in the sugar. Bring it back up to a full rolling boil that cannot be stirred down and boil for one full minute.

  4. Remove from the heat. Spoon off any foam that has appeared.

  5. Pour hot liquid into hot jars, leaving 1/4 inch head space.

  6. Wipe jars, apply lids and rings.

  7. Process for 5 minutes in a boiling water bath.

Recipe Notes

For a small batch of jelly: 

4 cups of grape juice

1 package fruit pectin

4 1/2 cups of pure cane sugar 

(This will yield 4 pints of jelly)