How To Make Corn Cob Jelly

It tastes like honey!

“Corn cob jelly is a perfect example of the “waste not, want not” spirit of our ancestors who knew how to use everything, and I mean everything.

Most of us are accustomed to tossing corn cobs in the trash or the compost pile, but there are actually many, many ways to utilize them.  Corn cob jelly is one of the tastiest…

Corn cob jelly is an old-fashioned idea and you can find recipes by the handfuls all over the internet. Even when printed at reputable websites, most of these recipes have not been updated to today’s food safety standards. Yes, we know our grandmas and great-grandmas ladled jelly into the jars and simply turned them upside down to seal them.  Please don’t do that.  We understand much more about food safety today.

Preserving food in jars by either boiling water bath or steam pressure canning are the only two proven and recommended methods to destroy yeast, molds, bacteria, and enzymes and keep foods safe…”

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