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.