An Experimental Rendezvous With Pepper Cherry Jelly

By Carol Woolum Roberts

My Creative Rendezvous this week involved a little experiment in jelly making.  I have enjoyed trying new creative endeavors with the Creative Rendezvous.  Last time daughter Zoe came to visit, she brought many gallons of sweet cherries off the cherry tree in her yard.  She took some of them and made cherry juice.  My hope was to make cherry jelly.

When she arrived back here in Kellogg last Monday, she brought more harvest from her home garden, including some kind of pepper.  They looked similar to jalapenos but were a lighter green and not quite as hot.  I did an image search, and they could possibly be Anaheim peppers, that are a rather mild pepper. 

I found a recipe for Cherry Jelly, and I found a different recipe where they added peppers to jelly.  I tried to combine the two, but the addition of the peppers may have affected the jelling of the jelly.  Because, like the Rhubarb-Vanilla Bean jelly I attempted two different times, this is now more of a syrup than a jelly.

At our family dinner on Tuesday night, we had brownies with Neapolitan Ice Cream on top for dessert.  We passed around the jar of the Pepper Cherry Syrup to drizzle on the dessert, and it was a hit.

All it not lost.  I will add it to my inventory of P. Kelly’s Jelly for tonight’s market at Music in the Park.  It might be as big of a seller as the Rhubarb-Vanilla Bean syrup has been. (We sold out of the Rhubarb-Vanilla Bean two weeks ago).

I hope as you read about our Creative Rendezvous adventures, you venture out and try some of your own.  Explore something new.  Try a new creative project that you have thought about doing.  Sign up for a class to learn something new.  Just take that step and do it!!

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Have you attempted a new creative endeavor in the year?  If so, what was it, and can you describe your experience trying this new creative thing?  I would love to hear about your experience.

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