Do you need to pierce the skins when using the steam juicer?

Suppernongs are a veriety of muscadine that is bronze-green in color. There are different verietys of Red muscadines also, such as ison and Noble, and a bunch of other verietires that people have bred. Scuppernongs are one of the original verieties, but it is still a veriatey of muscadine. They are all called Muscadines though. I am growing Scupps, Ison, and Nobles in our backyard.

You will love it, unless you don’t like strong tasting jelly. This and fig preserves are two of my favorite , unless there’s molasses available. Country folks sure know how to eat good.

Great advise!

Joan,

I can’t imagine what went wrong I’d you’re cooking to the proper temp. I’ve made that recipe numerous times and never had a failure.

Scuppernongs are Muscadine’s. There are many varieties of both bronze and red (or black) Muscadine’s. Scuppernongs are a type of bronze muscadine variety.

Mel,

Scroll to the bottom of the page of this blog post and you’ll find my recipe for muscadine jelly.

Thank you, Cher.

You’re right. Scuppernongs are bronze. They are a type of muscadine but muscadines are purple to black.

You don’t remove the seeds of the skin. After you change on them down, you strain the liquid and that removes all the solid pieces.

Best of luck with your muscadine jelly. I’ve never had mayhaw jelly but I’d love to try some.

i am going to make my first muscadine jelly tommorow. i make lots of mayhaw jelly. (i have a160 tree orchard) i use a custom recipe from Pacific Pectin in calif. my recipe is, 31.5 ozs. strong mayhaw juice, 38ozs cane sugar, & 2 ozs. pectin. (they also have a defoamer, that helps with skimming) I bring the jce. to 140 degrees, add 2 drops of defoamer, and the pectin. I bring this to a rolling boil, and add sugar quickly ,stirring constantly. when this comes to a rolling boil, i boil for exactly one minute. STIR CONSTANTLY…… pour quickly into jars, leaving a quarter inch air space, wipe rims, and tighten very tight. now.. i turn my jars upside down for 5 minutes, instead of a water bath. the theory is the hot jelly softens the gasket, and purify the trapped air. go on line to pacificpectin.com

Barbara,

I don’t know if there’s enough pectin to make it set without added sugar. If you want to try it,I’d recommend you use low-sugar pectin as an insurance policy.