Apple Jelly 2
Select apples that
are rather tart and highly flavored; slice them without paring; place in a
porcelain preserving kettle, cover with water, and let them cook slowly until
the apples look red. Pour into a colander, drain off the juice, and let this
run through a jelly-bag; return to the kettle, which must be carefully washed,
and boil half an hour; measure it and allow to every pint of juice a pound of
sugar and half the juice of a lemon; boil quickly for ten minutes. The juice of
apples boiled in shallow vessels, without a particle of sugar, makes the most
sparkling, delicious jelly imaginable. Red apples will give jelly the color and
clearness of claret, while that from light fruit is like amber. Take the cider
just as it is made, not allowing it to ferment at all, and, if possible; boil it
in a pan, flat, very large and shallow.