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Jun. 23rd, 2013 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI am making dandelion jelly!
I saw a recipe for it in a library book on eating wild plants several months ago and filed the idea away but it's only today that I noticed we had a whole bunch of dandelions blooming out back of our house. So I picked a bunch, made a dandelion tea with them, and I am currently turning that tea into jelly. After which, there will be jelly processing.
The dandelion tea turned out to be a somewhat disquieting dark brown color and the finished product may not be any good at all, but all I will have wasted is time and the money I spent on pectin. And maybe the jelly will be wonderful!
I added some yellow food coloring and it can out a very pleasant golden brown. And I only gave myself one very minor burn. Hurrah!
Now I just hope that it tastes good...
I saw a recipe for it in a library book on eating wild plants several months ago and filed the idea away but it's only today that I noticed we had a whole bunch of dandelions blooming out back of our house. So I picked a bunch, made a dandelion tea with them, and I am currently turning that tea into jelly. After which, there will be jelly processing.
The dandelion tea turned out to be a somewhat disquieting dark brown color and the finished product may not be any good at all, but all I will have wasted is time and the money I spent on pectin. And maybe the jelly will be wonderful!
I added some yellow food coloring and it can out a very pleasant golden brown. And I only gave myself one very minor burn. Hurrah!
Now I just hope that it tastes good...
