Borage Cucumber Jelly With Ginger

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 80
• 6 cups borage leaves, fresh picked after due is gone (and flowers)
• 1 cucumber, juiced and pulp discarded
• 1 ounce fresh ginger, juiced equaling 2 tablespoons juice
• 2 tablespoons lemons
• 1 (1 3/4 ounce) package dry pectin
• 5 cups sugar

Recipe

• 1 soak 6 cups of borage leaves and mint leave if using and flowers parts in a 3 cups of cold water overnight in the refrigerator, drain and strain, pressing the liquid out of the leaves and flowers gently.
• 2 measure 3 cups of the liquid, 1 cup cucumber juice and the 2 tablespoons fresh ginger juice, lemon juice, and pectin.
• 3 put into a deep jelly kettle and bring to a rolling boil, then add sugar and stir to mix well.
• 4 stir and boil hard for 1 1/2 minutes, or until mixture sheets from a wooden spoon, skim, pour into hot clean 1/2 pint jelly jars. seal the a water bath accordingly.
• 5 makes approximately 6-7 1/2 pints jars.