Winding down.
Only three jars left including the one being filled. I exhausted my supply of 19 wide mouth jars and am into the four narrow ones.
The last of the grapes are now into the boiler. The fresh bin is empty and outside before the fruit flies got crazy and the leavings bin is filling with warm and fragrant leavings.
A successful night. I sometimes make double this amount, even from a similar amount of grapes. But the small number of jars means I cycled through the grapes more quickly. I think that will mean a sweeter juice, less tannins from the skins, but we鈥檒l see. It looks great!
And I have heard the satisfying POP as some of the jars seal.
#fruit #canning #juice #gojays
19 wide mouth and one narrow mouth jar sit cooling on the table.
The leavings bin has a large lump of deep purple grapes and gunk and juice covering the bottom up to a few inches.
A narrow mouth mason jar is nearly full on the chair as the element glows red under the tall triple boiler and a red mixing bowl sits on the stove beside it with a few fresh grapes waiting to be put in.