Jananas

Given my recent canning bend (garlic pickles, mango chutney, and homemade hot sauce), Caitlin dared me to try making pickled grapes (based off of this recipe found online), with cinnamon, mustard seed, and black pepper corns. I was intrigued by the concept and I like doing things just because I can, so we made some this evening.

I substituted cane sugar for granulated and a mix of rice wine vinegar & apple cider vinegar because those are what I had in the house.

Here are the grapes, freshly washed. I actually had a tonne left over!

Then I cut off the ‘eyes’ from the grapes. So fresh and so clean.

Then I boiled the vinegar, sugar, and spices. The grapes were handy so that I could easily pour the mixture over them.

Now I just had to wait for the mixture to cool before pouring it into the cans. See, its steamy!

And here are my two cans of pickled grapes!!

I’m still a little nervous about tasting ‘em. I sent a can home with Badur last night, as he likes fancy foods. The other jar I’m planning on taking up to my parents to eat this weekend at the cottage. We’ll let you know next week what these taste like…

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