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Pepper Jellies 🌶️🌶️ Mild–Medium Entry · $8 retail · $4 wholesale

Sweet Heat Jelly

Classic gateway. Lunchbox Orange sweetness + jalapeño slow heat.

Channel Farmers Market Yield 6–8 jars Tier Mild-Medium Tier

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Lunchbox Orange + 1 cup jalapeños (seeded)
  • 1 cup apple cider vinegar
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • 5 cups sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 pouches liquid pectin

Method

Standard Pepper Jellies process:

Fine-chop peppers in food processor. Combine peppers + vinegar + acid + sugar in heavy pot. Hard rolling boil 1 min. Stir in pectin, return to hard boil exactly 1 min. Skim foam. Ladle into sterilized half-pint jars (¼" headspace). Water bath 10 min. Pectin is mandatory — never omit/substitute.

Notes

  • For more heat: leave half jalapeño seeds in.
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