Canning Dandelion Jelly
By Sandy KS
@rusty2rusty (6771)
Defiance, Ohio
May 4, 2016 11:14pm CST
The past week I have been canning Dandelion jelly. The jelly has turned out well. It was easy to make. My boyfriend likes it and wants to eat more. I ask him him to describe it. He keeps saying 'Sugar jelly'. What is sugar jelly?
Do you do any canning? If so, what do you normally can? What is your favorite flavor of jelly?
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
5 May 16
I have never canned anything. I am worried that I would do it wrong and it would spoil it. I do have a canning cellar though that I could use. Right now it is just cluttered up with dishes that were in there when I moved in. My children's aunt makes edible things with dandelions. They grow every where here. You cut the grass and a few days later there is a 7 inch high dandelion bloomed. The bees love them and so do my kids. They always bring me batches to put in vases on my table.
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
5 May 16
It is easy to do canning. Hardest thing for me was to put read the instruction in my pressure canner booklet. My oldest son helped me. As he looks forward to receiving free canning jars filled with my cooking. He is always so nice and brings the empty canning jars back.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
8 May 16
@shaggin Things that are acid enough you can just do a hot water bath. You put the jelly or whatever in a sterilized jar, tighten the ring, submerse it, boil it the length of time the instructions say. Then when you pull them out and they cool the lid seals and "pops'. Tomatoes and most fruits you can water bath, green beans have to be pressure cooked.
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
5 May 16
@rusty2rusty I didn't know that you needed a pressure canner to do it. I thought you just boiled the stuff on the stove in a pot and then put a lid on and tightened it. I guess that wouldn't take the air out of it though and the food would spoil.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
8 May 16
Did you make this with leaves or with flowers? It may just taste like sugar to him.
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
8 May 16
Just the flower, as the leaves are bitter. The leaves and stems are better to add in a salad.
@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
5 May 16
I obtain the dandelions from my front and backyards.
The jars I am using are called canning jars. I am not sure why they call it canning. Maybe another member can enlighten both of us. I do know I am not the only one who cans.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
5 May 16
@rusty2rusty I'll have to look up how to make this jelly. 
I lot of members here have mentioned "canning" that is actually bottling.
I lot of members here have mentioned "canning" that is actually bottling.@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
5 May 16
@MsTickle You're the first person I heard it called bottling. I think it is strange how doing the same thing can be called by different names. In different areas of the world. By I love learning about it.
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@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
6 May 16
I've never heard of that but sounds interesting. I don't can anything but have some family that do.
@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
8 May 16
My mom never canned. But her mother did and my stepmother always canned.
