5 of the Best ways to preserve grapes!

#Grapes #CityHomesteadLiving,#Foodpreservation
Do you find yourself short on time when harvest season comes? Well I have some tips that could save you time and Preserve your food.
5 of the Best ways to preserve grapes!

In this video you will learn five of the Best ways to preserve grapes for future use.

First you'll learn two great ways to produce the Best tasting grape jam.

Next you will discover two ways to freeze whole grapes for later processing and finally you'll see how to make grape sauce to freeze and reserve for making grape products like jam and fruit roll-ups.

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Presto 23-Quart Canner/cooker

Headspace gage funnel:

Beast Canteen Potato Ricer: (the most similar to our 85 year-old unit)

Bezrat Food Mill - Stainless Steel Kitchen Mill:

Kitchen Aid immersion blender:

and

Grape Jam Recipe:

FOR EVERY 2 (8 OZ) HALF PINTS, YOU WILL NEED:

1 1/3 cups
Concord Grapes - Prepared per below

1 1/2 Tbsp

Granulated sugar
1 2/3 cups
TRADITIONAL

1 cup
REDUCED SUGAR

To Prepare Grapes

1. Remove stems. Pinch grapes with fingers to separate skins and pulp. Finely chop skins; (or simmer with skins on) set aside. (As you know you can skip this step with a potato ricer or food mill)
2. Add 1 cup water to pulp and (skins on) simmer 5 minutes, covered.
3. Sieve to remove seeds.
4. Add finely chopped skins to pulp, if desired.

Make Your Jam
1. PREPARE waterbath canner, jars and lids according to manufacturer's instructions, if preserving.* Prepare and measure ingredients for recipe. ®
2. COMBINE prepared fruit and lemon juice (if required) in an 8-quart saucepan. Gradually stir in Ball RealFruit™ Pectin. Add butter, if using. Bring mixture to a full rolling boil that cannot be stirred down, over high heat, stirring constantly.
3. ADD entire measure of sugar, stirring to dissolve. Return mixture to a full rolling boil. Boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim foam if necessary.
4. PACK based on Enjoy Now or Fresh Preserve steps below.

QUICK TIP: Adding up to 1/4 tsp butter or margarine will reduce foaming

[davidpatrick]

Tnx. I just picked my very first grapes. About a quart right now

[karenbearden]

Thanks so much for the info!! Your little helpers look happy to assist you, and your chicks look super happy to help in cleaning up the left overs. :)

[suntimefarm]

Thanks for the tips!! New to preserving grapes, and we just moved to a homestead with a vineyard. Needed a quick video to give me some ideas!

[Felaura]

Hello, I have a question! Doesn't the immersion blender break up some of the seeds? It seems that these seed shards (and seedy taste?) would then be able to pass easily through the mill or ricer and I assume that this changes the character of the jam? It doesn't look like your jam contains seed fragments, and I have to conclude that you definitely still enjoy the flavor of the jam after the seeds have been immersion-blended! I'm curious to know your thoughts on this, bc it's clear that my 'fears' about the seeds are probably invalid, but I'm super interested to hear perhaps why! =) I have a bunch of concords right now after a long afternoon of harvesting from very high up with pole loppers etc, and I'm eager to preserve them somehow. I will continue to research here on youtube, and get that done today. But your video made me curious! Thank you for sharing this video =)

[Tillys_Travels]

Just a thought. Using a blender will chop the seeds. This may make your juice more bitter.
You can pulverise the grapes with the end of a wooden rolling pin, then use a potato masher when squashier.

[tac]

had a coworker complain the grapes he was buying went bad too fast
and could do nothing. i knew where he was coming from.
this has been years past.
here recently i was reliving this problem.
so I tried this, and it seems to work fine.
i wash the grapes in cold fresh water,
remove the stem and cut them in half.
grapes keep fine

[mssavedin]

wow, isnt there a way to preserve the skins? Thats where all the antioxidants are!