{"id":440,"date":"2005-04-10T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=440"},"modified":"2005-04-11T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T18:51:30","slug":"violet-jelly-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/violet-jelly-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Jelly &#8211; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up this morning ready to turn our violet infusion into jelly. Unlike the examples and the recipes that we found our infusion was not blue-green, but a deep purple.<br \/>\nWe strained out the flowers, mushing them to get out every last drop of infused water. We measured the results and found we have a little over 3 1\/4 cups. We topped that off with water to get the required 3.5 cups as instructed.<br \/>\nThen we turned on the heat. As the waters were heating, we added 1\/2 cup of fresh lemon juice and the contents of one 1.75 oz package of pectin (aka Sur-Gel or other brand).<br \/>\nAt this point the mixture was supposed to change from blue-green to violet. Ours stayed deep purple.<br \/>\nWe brought the mixture to a roiling boil and added 4 cups of sugar. Stirring the whole time.<br \/>\nWe brought the mixture back up to a roiling boil and kept it there for about 1 minute.<br \/>\nThen we ladled the liquid into five jars and began to let them cool.<br \/>\nIn a double boiler, we melted house wax and poured it onto each jar. A film of about 1\/8 inch of wax on each jar.<br \/>\nIt took a long time to cool and to gel. We were getting a little nervous and were thinking that we would have a warm violet drink instead of jelly in the end.<br \/>\nOur nervousness was unfounded. The mess gelled just fine. We added another layer of house wax to be sure that we had sealed the jars well.<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re ready to eat this and to make more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up this morning ready to turn our violet infusion into jelly. Unlike the examples and the recipes that we found our infusion was not blue-green, but a deep purple. We strained out the flowers, mushing them to get out every last drop of infused water. We measured the results and found we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}