The steps that ensure your berry jelly is a success.
Here are the four main steps in the jelly-making process that will ensure you end up with a successful result:When making jelly, you want to extract as much juice from the fruit as possible. Juicing the fruit with a juicer would be messy and yield less juice than if you cook it first. Start by cooking the berries with some water to allow every last bit of their flavor to seep into it.
to ensure it’s ready to pour into jars and store, remove the pot from the heat and, while it’s still bubbling, pour in the alcohol to flavor it. If you stir alcohol in with the lemon juice and sugar at the beginning of cooking, its taste will cook out by the time the jelly is ready. Adding it at the end preserves its bite — and because it’s such a small amount, it will not throw off the final set of your jelly.