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Strawberry Balsamic Jelly

Filed Under: Jelly, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Jelly, Pomona Pectin, Strawberries

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Home-canned Strawberry Balsamic Jelly makes for a delicious alternative to making the same old “strawberry jam” every year.

You can make this with sugar or an alternative sweetener of your choice.

NOTE for time planning: This recipe has a 2 hour pause in it while the juice drains off the cooked berries.

Contents hide
  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Strawberry Balsamic Jelly
    • 2.1 Ingredients
    • 2.2 Instructions
    • 2.3 Notes
    • 2.4 Nutrition
    • 2.5 Liquid sweetener directions (agave, honey, liquid stevia, etc.)
  • 3 Reference information
  • 4 Recipe Source
  • 5 Safety Check
  • 6 Nutrition information
    • 6.1 Regular version
    • 6.2 Sugar-free version

The recipe

Jar size choices: Either 125 ml  (½ cup / 4 oz) OR quarter-litre (½ US pint / 250 ml / 8 oz)

Processing method: Water bath or steam canning

Yield: 5 x quarter-litre (½ US pint) jars

Headspace: 1 cm (¼ inch)

Processing time: Either size jar 10 minutes

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Strawberry Balsamic Jelly

5 x quarter-litre jars (½ pint / 8 oz) 
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Jelly
Prep Time 25 minutes minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
Total Time 45 minutes minutes
Servings 5 5 x quarter-litre jars (½ pint / 8 oz)
Calories 17kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 2 kg strawberries (4 lbs)
  • 125 ml water (½ cup / 4 oz)
  • 1 teaspoon butter (or margarine. Optional)
  • 4 teaspoons Pomona pectin (12 g)
  • 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (60 ml)
  • 200 g sugar (white. OR 1 cup / 8 oz OR 125 ml honey (½ cup / 4 oz) or 1 cup / 200g Splenda OR 1 - 2 teaspoons liquid stevia)
  • 4 teaspoons calcium water
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Wash strawberries, hull them.
  • Put into a large pot with the water.
  • Optional: add a teaspoon of butter or margarine to reduce foaming.
  • Cover, bring to a boil over high heat, then lower to a simmer, covered for 2 to 4 minutes stirring frequently.
  • Remove from heat, mash right in the pot.
  • Transfer to cheese cloth or a jelly bag and suspend over a bowl or large jug for about 2 hours to let juice drip off.
  • You want to end up with about 1 litre (4 cups / 32 oz) of strawberry juice.
  • You can freeze the pulp for another use including adding to batches of jam or pie fillings.
  • LIQUID SWEETENERS (HONEY, AGAVE, LIQUID STEVIA, ETC): See special directions below before proceeding further.
  • DRY SWEETENERS (SUGAR, SPLENDA, POWDERED STEVIA, ETC): Mix the pectin powder with the sugar in a small bowl or a measuring cup, set aside. Add the calcium water to the pot. Bring pot contents to a boil, then add pectin mixture.
  • ALL SWEETENERS: Add balsamic vinegar to mixture in pot. When pot returns to a boil, let boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
  • Remove from heat.
  • Ladle into 125 ml (4 oz) or ¼ litre (½ US pint / 8 oz) jars.
  • Leave 1 cm ( ¼ inch) headspace.
  • Debubble, adjust headspace if needed.
  • Wipe jar rims.
  • Put lids on.
  • Process in a water bath or steam canner.
  • Process jars for 10 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.

Notes

You can start with frozen, thawed berries. If so, don't discard the juice from the berries as they thaw, add it in.
Pomona pectin comes with a small pouch of powdered calcium for you to mix with water to make calcium water.
The pectin powder will clump if you just mix it straight into the fruit; that's why you mix it with something first.
If you use liquid stevia, how much you need will depend on the tastes of your crowd and how sweet / tart that particular batch of blueberries was. Normally, 1 teaspoon is sweet, 2 is very sweet.

Nutrition

Serving: 2g | Calories: 17kcal | Carbohydrates: 4.1g | Protein: 0.3g | Fat: 0.2g | Sodium: 10mg | Fiber: 1.3g | Sugar: 2.5g

Liquid sweetener directions (agave, honey, liquid stevia, etc.)

  1. Bring the juice back to a boil, either in a pot or in a microwave. (Mind the surge when removing from microwave.)
  2. Put half of the heated juice into a blender, along with the pectin, and blend carefully (cover top of blender with a towel to prevent hot surge. (See recipe notes below if multiplying the batch.)
  3. Put the blender mixture in a pot.
  4. Put the rest of the juice in the blender, whiz it to pick up more of the pectin with the same towel safety precaution, and pour that into pot. (The two steps help to get most of the pectin out of the blender.)
  5. Bring pot to a boil. Add the calcium water, and the liquid sweetener.
  6. Bring back to a boil, and proceed from canning directions above starting at step 11.

Reference information

How to water bath process.

How to steam can.

When water-bath canning or steam canning, you must adjust the processing time for your altitude.

For stevia, Better Stevia liquid stevia was the stevia used.

Information about Pomona pectin.

More information about Sugar and Salt-Free Canning in general.

What is the shelf life of home canned goods?

Recipe Source

Strawberry-Balsamic Jelly. In: Duffy, Allison Carroll. Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press. 2013. Page 102.

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Safety Check

Strawberry Balsamic Jelly has a pH of 3.77, tested using 25 g solids, 50 ml distilled water. Well below upper safety cut-off of 4.6 pH.

Strawberry Balsamic Jelly has a pH of 3.77, tested using 25 g solids, 50 ml distilled water. Well below upper safety cut-off of 4.6 pH.

Nutrition information

You can make this with sugar (36 calories per 2 tablespoons) or cut those calories in half by making it sugar-free (17 calories per 2 tablespoons.)

Regular version

Per 2 tablespoons:

  • 36 calories, 10 mg sodium

strawberry balsamic jelly nutrition regular

Sugar-free version

Per 2 tablespoons:

  • 17 calories, 10 mg sodium

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* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* Better Stevia ® is a registered trademark of the NOW Foods Company.

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Tagged With: Jelly, Pomona Pectin, Strawberries

Filed Under: Jelly, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Jelly, Pomona Pectin, Strawberries

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