THE 2017 CHILLI THREAD

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  1. CanadianLori

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    This is my hot pepper wine jelly recipe
    In a neavy bottom pan add:
    1 bottle dry red wine 750ml size
    1/2 cup lemon juice
    1 package powedered fruit pectin 57g size
    And whatever chopped peppers you feel like throwing in
    Mix up then heat to a full boil whist stirring constantly
    Add 4 1/2 cups (1.125L) white granulated sugar
    Bring back to boil and boil hard for 1 minute

    Can. Just like you would any other jelly.

    You can also make this without the hot pepper.

    Both versions are very nice on cheese or with chicken or pork :)

    Oh, and don't give to kids

    I give them to friends as little presents around Christmas to my pub friends and also family.
     
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      What I do with the chillies.
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        Now that sounds interesting as I could use some of my homemade Blackberry wine.

        All I have to do now are the US to UK conversions
         
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          @misterQ that looks very good. :blue thumb:

          I prefer the fresh taste of chillies so tend to have some plants producing most of the year :) but we rarely have any from March to May as we cut back the overwintering ones at the end of April. So I just eat the ones that I've dried. Although I do have some that have been preserved in coconut oil and kept in the fridge (the nut oil goes solid at low temperature).
           
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            Those little jars I used are under a 1lb (400g) filled so probably about 2 1lb jars with some over? Double up if you want more.
             
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              I have to say, @misterQ , that we have never had a problem with setting our chilli jam, with either recipe. We just use ordinary sugar...?
               
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                Just over 3 cups - what we used to call a 26er (26 imperial ounces)
                 
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                  Do these conversions sound about right?


                  1 cup (Canadian ) unit of volume = 0.227 litres, therefore 0.113L

                  1 cup sugar (Canadian ) unit of volume = 0.211 Kg, therefore 0.950Kg


                  By "can" do you mean simply pour into standard jam jar and screw on cap, or the normall USA/Canadian mesning which would be bottle and continue to cook in a water bath
                   
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                    Not sure if this will help @Scrungee but this is from America.

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                      I wouldn't use those, Linz, they look a bit "Mickey Mouse" to me.:hate-shocked::dunno::whistle::heehee:
                       
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                        U.S. measures are not the same as imperial.. and I believe you'll find a little bit of difference between metric fluid and dry measures depending on the product...
                         
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                          Your conversions seem pretty close. My measuring cup has both imperial and metric and 1 cup is = 250ml (or .250L)

                          Definitely water bath. That is the lowest level of canning I do. The lemon juice adds enough acid so that you do not need to pressure can.
                           
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                            There's a difference between between Canadian cups and USA cups, so unless you got that from Disneyland Canada all those conversions would require further adjustment Canadian Cups to US Cups conversion A surprising amount of people get homebrew recipes wrong by not realising they are on US websites that use different size gallons but same size pounds.

                            When I was on hols a few weeks ago I found a winemaking book in a charity shop and although it had lots of interesting recipes, most of ingrediients don't grow in UK and even if they did it used funny Canadian units so I didn't bother adding that one to my library.

                            I'm afraid that Metric units are the only safe ones to take for granted, as many US recipes get re-posted on UK websites without conversion.
                             
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                              Interesting, I didn't know they had different cups I assumed they were the same!
                              Nah from Florida I'm afraid... The main reason why it was bought was that so many recipes are rehashed and use these bloody cups! :scratch:
                               
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                                Yes, imperial cup is the British measure which is what we use here in Canada. When we use cups.

                                We have had one foot in imperial measures and the other in metric for so long that we're pretty much used to it. That said, I agree with @Scrungee , metric is the way to go when absolute accuracy is needed.

                                All of our foods are sold in metric units. And there are lots and lots of great recipes out there, that use U.S. units and therefore I end up doing lots of math before I start :doh:measuring
                                 
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