Cranberry Jelly

Last week I went to Costco and found that they had gotten big bags of cranberries. Since Thanksgiving is coming up I decided to make Cranberry Jelly. My recipe is a recipe found at  Mat på bordet a Norwegian food-blog that I love. The recipe is for "tyttebær" our Norwegian version (sort of) of cranberries, I just replace them with cranberries.

Ingredients; 


Cranberries
Water
Sugar

For every 2 pounds of cleaned cranberries you use 1 cup of water. Bring the cranberries and water to a boil in a big pot and let it simmer for 20-30 minutes until the cranberries burst. Pour the cranberries and juice in a jelly bag or a cheesecloth lined colander (three layers) and let drip undisturbed  preferably over night. Discard the berries (or not, you can perhaps make cranberry sauce with it) and measure the liquid. Pour the liquid in a pot and heat. For every 4 cups of liquid add 1,35 pounds of sugar while stirring until sugar has dissolved. Bring to a boil and continue boiling for 10 minutes. Do the spoon test;


Spoon or Sheet Test – Dip a cool metal spoon into the boiling jelly mixture and lift the spoon out of the steam so the syrup runs off the side. When the mixture first starts to boil, the drops will be light and syrupy. As the syrup continues to boil, the drops will become heavier and will drop off the spoon two at a time. When the two drops form together and "sheet" off the spoon, the jellying point has been reached.


If the liquid pass the spoon test it's done. If not continue boiling but not more than 20 minutes.


Pour the jelly into warm sterilized jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace. To sterilize my jars i arranged them in a preheated oven (225F) on a kitchen towel for 20 minutes. I'm not sure if thats the best way. They get sterilized but this is what my towel looked like after.

Wipe the sealing surface of the jars with a clean paper towel, dampened with hot water and adjust the lids. Cool jars completely while vacuum seal is drawn and the jelly sets. If the lids give in when poked there is no vacuum and you will have to keep them in the refrigerator. They should be good for a while anyway, just keep them cold.