{"id":678,"date":"2010-09-01T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:02:38","slug":"what-to-do-with-20-pounds-of-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/what-to-do-with-20-pounds-of-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with 20 pounds of grapes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"Grapes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>I&#8217;ll tell you:\u00a0 make one and a half quarts of grape juice and two batches of grape jelly, that&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what kept me from making jelly years ago. When I first<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-688 alignright\" title=\"grapes_mashed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grapes_mashed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" \/> started canning, I was drawn toward the jams because it was just a matter of squishing everything up and adding sugar and pectin. I was so proud! But, then, came the turned-up noses of two toddlers to the texture of the fruit and jelly\u2014who knew?\u00a0 The following year, I relented and began making jelly. WHAT A SNAP?! Why was I intimidated? What was I thinking?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-692\" title=\"Grape_jelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grape_jelly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"326\" \/>Jelly is now my preferred route of fruit preservation. I usually drip the mashed fruit overnight to collect the juice and then make the jelly, first-thing, the next morning. However, it seemed the grapes were pouring their juice through the jelly bag yesterday so I was able to make it the same day&#8230; make two batches&#8230; and collect more than a quart of juice.<\/p>\n<p>And there are four times as many grapes left on the vines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll tell you:\u00a0 make one and a half quarts of grape juice and two batches of grape jelly, that&#8217;s what. I don&#8217;t know what kept me from making jelly years ago. When I first started canning, I was drawn toward the jams because it was just a matter of squishing everything up and adding sugar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,35,18,30,76,19,28,29,77],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-canning","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-food-preservation","tag-grapes","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-jams","tag-jellies","tag-juice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}