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Failed Pear Jelly

I tried to make Pear Jelly on Sunday while I was making Pear Sauce. I knew you could make apple jelly with the cores and peels of apples and I was pretty certain I could do this with pears. 


I had found a recipe on the internet for Pear Jelly that stated that pectin would not be necessary for this jelly because of the natural pectin in the pear. I had never heard of pears having pectin. I should have listened to myself at this point and did more research. I did not. The original recipe for Pear Jelly was this:

Pear Jelly
4 cups of pear juice
3 cups of sugar
2 Tbsp. lemon juice

This sounds suspiciously like my apple jelly recipe so I should have been more suspicious. I was not. My mistake.

I cooked my pear peelings and cores, minus the stems and blossom ends, in two cups of water to have more than 4 cups of juice.


To the juice I added the sugar and lemon juice. I heated the juice mixture up to boiling and continued cooking.   It appeared to be thickening so I took the pot off of the heat and did the spoon sheeting test. Nothing. Just slid right off the spoon. Hmm...

So I cooked the jelly mixture some more (15 minutes?). I took off the heat. Nothing. Repeated the process. Nothing. I broke out the box of Sure Jell. I read their instructions on gelling jelly and how to fix ungelling jelly.


I did what they said. I tried a trial batch and stuck into the refrigerator. After a day, the jelly appeared to be thickening. So I did the rest according to their instructions. I canned it and processed it.


Beautiful, lovely goldenness, right? Looks good, not gelling. I have put all of them in the fridge for now, but I would appreciate any suggestions on what to do with ungelled jelly. 

I am very disappointed, by the way. I was really looking forward to pear jelly!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    When not using a pectin, I always do even amts of the fruit and the sugar--but IDK what to do when it's a juice you are using....

    Though, I am thinking that would make lovely pear syrup--for pancakes or over ice cream! ;)

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