Guava Jelly
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
- 12 very ripe guavas
- 5 cups water, enough to cover the fruit
- sugar
- lime juice or lemon juice
Recipe
- 1 dice guavas into one inch cubes.
- 2 place in a large saucepan and cover with just enough water to cover the fruit well.
- 3 cover and cook till guavas are very tender, about half an hour.
- 4 cool.
- 5 cover a large bowl with a muslin cloth and invert fruit onto the cloth taking care to catch the liquid that drips through the muslin, into the bowl.
- 6 gather the four ends of the cloth and tie a knot and hang this'bag' for about four hours and collect all the drippings into the bowl.
- 7 lightly squeeze out any juice left in the cloth.
- 8 discard pulp.
- 9 measure the liquid.
- 10 for every cup of liquid add one cup of sugar and one tablespoon of lemon juice.
- 11 (eg. if there are four cups of liquid you would need to add four cups of sugar and four tablespoons of lime/lemon juice.) put this mixture back on fire and bring to a boil.
- 12 lower heat and cook, stirring constantly (as the liquid tends to boil over), till the liquid starts coating the spoon thickly and the juice/jelly drips from the spoon in jointed drops.
- 13 let stand for half an hour and pour into jars while still warm.
- 14 cover and seal.
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