Agarita recipes

[BuckySWT]

Anyone have some?

Our lease is covered in agarita. Plan to do some thrashing this summer.

Figuring jelly for sure. My wife's grandfather used to make wine out of em.

[be12hunt]

I thought maybe you misspelled margarita...sorry can't help here

[RR 314]

We used one of these recipes(or very close) several years ago. Old block headed German woman in Llano told us how to make it and it was very similar to this recipe. Good stuff.


AGARITA BERRY JELLY
Place cleaned berries in a kettle with sufficient water to cover and cook until berries begin to pop. They need not all pop. Let juice drip through a jelly bag (or cloth) squeezing only slightly. To make jelly: Combine 6 1/2 cups juice with one package of SureJell, in a kettle large enough to allow strong boiling. Bring to a hard boil and add 7 cups of sugar. Let come to a hard boil again and for only one min. Remove from fire and fill jelly glasses. Freeze or can juice for making jelly later. It has a different flavor all its own.


AGARITA JELLY
Clean berries in deep pan or pail. The leaves and dirt will sink to the bottom, leaving berries on top. About 3 changes of water completes the cleaning.
Use an aluminum or granite vessel to cook. Fill vessel two-thirds, just covering with cold water. Boil until pressure of spoon on berries against vessel shows them to be tender. Pour contents into jelly bag; hang up to drain until it stops dripping. Do not squeeze bag except very lightly.

To one quart of juice add two-thirds quarts of cane sugar (do not use beet sugar). Boil until it jells.


AGARITA JELLY
(without added pectin)
Two cups Agarita juice (about 3 1/2 pounds agaritas)
Two cups of sugar
To prepare juice. Use equal parts of washed fruit and water and place in non-metal container. Let stand overnight. Boil for 5 minutes. Mash, strain and squeeze to remove juice. About 1/3 of the berries should be half-ripe for good jelly.

To make jelly. Place juice over heat and let it come to a boil. Add sugar and boil about 5 minutes, until it gives the sheet test. Remove from heat, skim off, pour into hot jars and seal.

[BuckySWT]

Cool.
Might try to brew some wine out there too with the guys

[Treefrog331]

My sister made some jelly and it was great!

[tx10pt]

My grandmother always made agarita jelly. Sure miss it.