SHF #22: Sweet Red Pepper Jelly
August 24, 2006 by Andrea
Filed under Condiments
This month’s Sugar High Friday is hosted by Delicious Days and the theme is canning. I enjoy canning fruit jellies and jams as well as hot pepper jelly, but this sweet pepper jelly has to be my favorite. It’s a little sweet and a little tart and has the consistency of honey, a nice combination. It makes a great party appetizer poured over a slab of cream cheese and served with wheat crackers or sliced toasted baguette, although I enjoy it for breakfast or brunch on top of english muffins smeared with cream cheese. The color of the jelly will be a nice amber with red flakes, or if you prefer you can make it bright red by adding the optional food coloring.
If this is your first experience with canning, then take the time to read about the boiling water canning method and check out the resources mentioned in the post, including the list of canning cookbooks.
Update: Check out the round up of all this month’s canned sweets at Delicious Days. Read more
SHF: Strawberry Lemonade Granita
It’s been hot this summer. Hot. Plus, being 33 weeks pregnant in July is like having your own personal furnace running on high 24/7, so I was thrilled to see that this month’s Sugar High Friday theme was ice. How timely and appropriate!
I love this lemonade recipe from Food & Wine Magazine. It is very refreshing and makes a nice elegant drink for summer parties. So of course I couldn’t resist the idea of making it into granita. I just put the strained mixture into a glass pan and then froze and whisked it a couple times.
The original lemonade recipe says to serve it over ice, which I highly recommend. Even after straining, the drink is still somewhat thick, so the melting ice helps to get it to just the right consistency for sipping. Read more
