Making Pepper Jelly before a Hard Freeze in Appalachia 

How is it I feel homesick for a place I've never lived in? Thanks Tipper God Bless.

Pepper jelly on peanut butter and toast 😋

Tipper, you always make things look so easy, your work is smooth and seamless. I've had your pepper jelly and it is excellent! Actually everything you make is excellent. I think that's because you love what you are doing!

As a child, I never had pepper jelly, but as an adult, I tried it and felt sorry for my younger self... ;)

I work at a pepper jelly stand in Pike Place Market in Seattle!!! Yours looks amazing, too!

Well, I could talk on this subject forever. My first thought on watching you was "oh my momma woulda been smackin the back of your hands with a wood spoon tellin you to wipe off the tops of them jars (one time I smarted her and said "mommy, I didn't get anything on that jar" and she told me "well, when youiz uzin yourn own food & jars you do it yourz way, till then you"ll wipe each lid" and of course momma is gone now but I still wipe off each lid even though I knowed I didn't spill anything on it... I love pepper jelly with only 1 smallish jalapeño pepper for all 8 cups of sweet peppers. I love using it in a tuna fish sammich, ham spreads, i jelly the insides with jelly & butter the outsides for grilled cheese and grilled ham and grilled tuna. I mix it in bbq sauces, i make it in everywhere you mix stuff, i just today threw a spoonfull in chili i made cause my juice was too acidy. I'd say my favorite way is eaten grilled hotdogs till they are near burnt then using saurkraute and pepper jelly! Mmmm

There’s a restaurant that I love to go to that serves pepper jelly with sweet potato fries & it’s so delicious.. Brenda

I have never seen the need to water bath jams and jellies. I just turn them upside down to make sure the lids stay good and hot, and they seal up nicely. I have never had a spoilage problem with this method in 40+ years of canning.

🥉 3rd Place I can't eat peppers. But I want to try this and use it as gifts for people at Thanksgiving On second thought, it would be good to make a batch of red and a batch of green and put it on either side of a block of cream cheese so it's green red and white. Christmas colors. And one could be hot and the other mild.

My husband grew up eating that Sand Plum jelly on cornbread and biscuits!

I went to a small touristy shop in Mackinaw City MI years ago. They had strawberry-jalapeno jelly for sale. I thought it sounded terrible but they gave me a sample on a cracker. It was great! Starts out sweet but ends with a little heat. It was pricey but I bought a small jar. I've never seen it for sale anywhere else.

Oh my goodness 😃. I love some pepper jelly but, I like mine hot. It's delicious on cornbread! People think I'm crazy but, when I was a little girl my papaw would crumble cornbread in a bowl and pour pepper sauce over it. Now I do that. I love you pepper sauce and I drink it sometimes if it's not too hot. I just made 13 pints of jalapeno pepper sauce. I just watched your video of you cooking okra and that's exactly how my Mama cooked it. To me that's the Best. I've always loved to cook and I was a good cook. Well, good ole Southern food.. not these fancy dishes that rich folks eat. Anyway, my okra has never been as good as my Mom's. Thanks for your videos. They bring back so many memories of my childhood days 😃.

I used to like the hot pepper jelly over cream cheese. 💕 You make it look really EASY making and canning that Pepper Jelly! Enjoy!

HEY!! I have that very food chopper! I thought I was the only one who still had one of these. Mine has worked beautifully since the 70s!! I will make this for sure.

Pepper jelly is awesome on pimento cheese! 🙂

I love it with fresh peas or butterbeans.

Toasted Sour Dough Bread & butter with pepper jelly!❣

I love to cut thin slices of cream cheese and stack them on Ritz crackers with a dab of pepper jelly 😋 😋😋 delicious !!! Also good with candied jalapeños. Thanks Tipper. I love your channel.

This lady is great. Down to earth but also professional.

I've made it with half hot, half not. I love a salad dressing made with it adding Dijon mustard and red wine vinegar. Good over cream cheese too.

that looks so good, and the salad and cornbread look delicious too!! I love watching you can stuff.

I like the Mmm-good face she makes at 15:40. I love my BBQ guys videos when they taste their final cook, they all have a similar face. You know it's good when the eyes close and the head turns. I love it and I love this lady. I wish they were our neighbors, she and my wife would be great friends! My wife loves salads too.

I’ve only ever had it spicy, made locally, and bought at a farmers’ market. I love it as is, on a nice wedge of fresh Italian bread. Thank you for showing us how to make our own, and the idea of putting it on cornbread sounds scrumptious! PS I love the way you say ‘boil’. I hope that doesn’t sound rude. I certainly don’t mean it that way. It’s delightful!

This is my childhood… I’m making this this weekend.

Thanks, love pepper jelly. My granny taught me to turn the jars over for 5 minutes to kill anything on the lids. God Bless and stay safe.

I’m german and have never even heard of pepper jelly. I want to try this 😋🤤

I never ate pepper jelly.i think I would like it with beans& cornbread.thank you for sharing all your recipes with us.i look forward to each one.God bless all of you and cover you with his wings.💗💗💗🙏🙏♥️💚

Looks absolutely fantastic can't wait to try your recipe for pepper jelly thanks for sharing

I watched this video last night and it gave me the inspiration to go ahead and make jam from the blackberries I hadn’t canned yet. So at 7:45 I began, using a no-pectin recipe from Pinterest: equal amounts of fruit & sugar and 1 TBS lemon juice for every 200 grams of fruit. By 8:45 I had 9 (8 ounce) jars made from 1290 grams of blackberries that wouldn’t have lasted another day. Instead of boiling my jars, I sterilized them in a 300 degree oven. That Pinterest recipe was helpful, but the best recipe in the world is useless unless you are inspired to try it. Thank you for building confidence in this 62 year old woman.

Mmmm, I love pepper jelly! My Aunt gave me her recipe and in WI they put cream cheese on a cracker and then jelly too.

Hi Tipper Your pepper jelly looks delicious 😋 Mamaw made this jelly and ate it on cornbread Or biscuits😁 I like jalapeño jelly & cream cheese with crackers , it’s so good ! I enjoyed watching you make your jam Take care 🌸

I was always told that hot product and hot jars is called cold packing. That's how pickles are done. If you hot bath them then the pickles will turn to mush instead of being crisp. When I did canning my favorite thing to can was squash with onions.

Hi Tipper, thanks for this vid. I have made pepper jelly before, it's wonderful I really appreciate the tip about adding a bit of jelly to salad dressings. I have never thought of that before and why not! I'll be trying that. Thanks again. My daughter did give birth at home for all the world to see and we have a new baby boy! God less us all!. So happy!

I make this with jalapeños all the time. People think I'm crazy till they taste it! Its wonderful on a sausage biscuit & I use it a lot to baste on chicken on the grill. The sugars caramelize & its just wonderful!

The group, “Red Hot Chili Peppers,” says,” this is a great jam!” I like, when you speed the camera up, you hands, are really jammin!

I made pepper jelly for the first time ever. The peppers were my last harvest. I had a lot of peppers so I made confetti pepper jelly, pickled sweet peppers, Cowboy Candy and still have 1.6 lbs of jalapeño peppers to process. The confetti pepper jelly is the same as yours just I had red, yellow, orange and green peppers, plus it has a cup of honey and one cup of jalapeño peppers in it too. I will say your blog on Blind Pig and Acorn about pepper jelly inspired me to give it a try. Thank you for sharing and inspiring us to try something new.

Thanks again for showing a product that just more often than not can put a great punch into a southern meal. I have called myself looking through your posts for one on Chow Chow relish. I have loved it since I was a child and still do. It always goes on top of whatever dried or fresh peas I am eating. I also love corn relish with my vegetables and cornbread. Be blessed, well, and happy.

A bit of pepper jelly in a salad dressing is a fantastic idea! Thanks so much for passing that along. Everything you mentioned sounds good, actually. I've only ever had pepper jelly with cream cheese and crackers, and boy is it yummy. I don't mind if it's got a little heat to it, especially when paired with cream cheese.

Yummy, I love sweet or hot pepper jelly. Thanks for sharing your pepper jelly making. Have a blessed day.

These videos make me so happy, thank you so much Tipper! I recently moved to California without any family out here, and your videos remind me of a mother's Southern comfort far away from home, and it gives me a lot of peace when I feel homesick. I'm going to try this recipe over baked brie for the holidays! It looks amazing. ❤️❤️❤️

Cannot wait to try this recipe. My grandmother always made pepper butter and never processed it. She taught my sister and I to turn them upside down as they cooled in the jars.

My Appalachian Mama served with a pepper jelly with a Canadian Goose (roasted). It was phenomenal ! Great job! Thank you, Tipper!🐶🐱🐈

Strawberry jalopeno jelly is the best I have had. With peanut butter and toast. Good stuff Maynard 👍

My grandma used to make zucchini relish in Ohio. I remember it being sweet too.

Funny story, I made pepper jelly quite a few years ago and I gave my 3 brothers a jar and told them that I thought they’d really love it. Well unbeknownst to me 2 of my brothers gave their jars to the one brother their jars saying they probably would never eat it. The next morning they had bagels with cream cheese and my jelly on it. They ranted and raved about that jelly and my brother wouldn’t tell it was my jelly for along time. Then he finally told them and they wanted their jelly back. So very funny. They made my brother not tell, but of course he did the first chance he had. Love your channel!

I found red pepper-tomato-horseradish jelly at a flea market one time and I never found it again! It was delicious! I will have to try and make it myself I guess! God Bless!

Grandmother used to make jelly out of everything. Corn cobs (after the kernels were cut off for the corn dryer), tomato leftovers (after juicing the tomatoes), and all of the berries available around the property. I miss her and her gooseberry jelly.

My daughter and I just made a batch of pepper jelly. Delicious!

I have never had pepper jelly. This looks delicious! I would like to try one batch of all hot peppers, one of sweet only, and another of mixed. You gave some very great ideas for how to serve it - as a marinade, with cream cheese, etc. I enjoy how you very clearly explain and video each step of the recipes you make, like in this one from chopping, mixing the recipe, and all the way to putting the lids on the freshly packed jars. I am like you in that once I have done something a certain way, it is hard for me to learn a new way - like using the tongs instead of a magnet to pick up the lids, I use tongs. When I first started cooking, I was afraid to do anything different than what a recipe called for - I wouldn’t even substitute ingredients from the same family (for example white bread for wheat bread). I never thought I would ever be the type of cook who uses a recipe for an idea only, and freely adapts it to fit her pantry supplies or equipment on hand. I admired those kind of cooks, but could never imagine I would be talented or smart enough to do that. And now I am! If you have never had any problems with double batching, that’s good enough for me. I will feel ok double batching, too then, when making jelly, etc. I made a big pot of chili last night using what was in the pantry - five different types of canned beans, tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, etc. For seasoning I used chipotle pepper, chili powder, cumin and minced onions. I prefer real onions, but my sister can’t eat them. She said this chili is the best she has ever had - we are having the leftovers tonight, and it was simply just a hodge-podge of ingredients. My foster kid from Russia that is staying here, loves spicy foods. The beets her mom made when she was here a couple of months ago, was spicy, so I shouldn’t be surprised when she liked this chili, although, I don’t think it’s spicy at all. Thank you for this video. It is one I will be making. I am looking forward to tasting the pepper jelly with cream cheese on fancy crackers! I could serve that along with summer sausage on crackers. Sometimes I am not hungry at dinner (supper in the south!), so I just want something without a lot of fuss - and this would be great, maybe even with some soup, too. Donna. : )

I grew up around Charlotte and Monroe N. C. I heard about Pepper Jelly all my life. I would see it on small store shelves all over the state. It always looked pretty and colorful. For some reason, I never wanted to taste it. After watching your video you have convinced me to give it a try, maybe even on a corn fritter.

I grew up eating homemade pepper jelly. Put some up last week. I just love mine with ham, cream cheese, pepper jelly, & a slice of tomato cooked in a toaster/ convection oven, yummy. Very yummy on fried cornbread. My husband likes it with salami, cheese, & peanut butter on white bread 😆! Oh well everybody likes different things sometimes. I use a few Serrano peppers in my hotter jelly, just sweet pepper in my mild. My kids all love it too. My mama taught me it depends on the natural acids in your fruits & vegetables, also if you use vinegar in the recipe. If it's non acidic use a water bath, like canning green beans...

Awesome! Thank you.

I find it odd that Americans water bath jellies as I have never done that and never seen it recommended in any of my (many) British cookery books. As you say Tipper as long as you have clean, hot dry jars, you fill them with the hot mixture and seal straight away then there should be no problem with storage over a reasonable period of time.

I made strawberry/ carolina reaper jam a few weeks ago. the sweet cuts the heat just right. ( I only used two reapers for about half a gallon of strawberries)

That was great!

Will absolutely try this!

Sorry to say I've never had pepper jelly, but it really looks good. Picked all my peppers Saturday before our first frost.Wife usually cuts them up and freezes them,for meatloaf, pizzas,and what ever. I did pickle some like you suggested, there so good like that.Love to watch you work in the kitchen Tipper, your really in your comfort zone there. Thanks for sharing, and have a Good Evening 🙂.

Thank you for sharing your skills!

Thank you. I’ve always wondered about pepper jelly. I’ve copied the recipe, so thank you very much. Blessings to you and your family. 🙏🏻❤️

Looks delicious.thank you!

You make it look so easy and delicious

I did enjoy this ,thanks for sharing

Looks delicious 😋

Looks and sounds real good 👍

About to have our first freeze, so I went out and picked all my peppers. Perfect timing! I gotta try it on some fried cornbread now. Sounds delicious!

I need to try this!

That looks and sounds amazing!

Oh I’m going to make some. Thank you for sharing.

LOVE pepper jelly!!

Love pepper jelly. Thank you for the recipe

Ooooohhhh waaaw!!!! Will definitely try it!!!! Great suggestions! Thanks a lot!

I can’t wait to use this recipe it looks delicious

Can't wait to try it ☺️❤

Perfect to Glaze pork loin and on creamcheese LOVE THIS STUFF 🤩

My childhood was filled with pepper jelly. I loved it on meat, particularly lamb. It's so delicious and a taste you just can't get from anything else. Thanks for the recipe, I am still making that peach cobbler (and it doesn't last 2 days in my home lol) and I can't wait to add another one of your awesome recipes to our meals. Thanks for all you do, Tipper, it's helping to spread your traditional food/way of life across the planet.

Thanks for sharing, Ill 'be following this method.

Thanks so much for "learning" me up.

I love how you keep things simple. Thank you for showing us how uncomplicated cooking can be. God bless ❤🙏

I still have peppers in the garden and plenty of little jars. I’m going to can tomorrow! A first for me-can’t wait! Thank you as always for your recipes and experience!

Thats the way I make it too. I like to process it real fine and when I do that it looks like a jar full of glitter pieces. We have also made it where you strain the peppers and have just the juice. Its good that way too. My favorite way to eat it is to pour a small jar over a block of cream cheese. We serve it with celery sticks and carrot sticks. Also with fancy crackers . Delicious. Thank you for sharing this recipe because I had lost mine in our move. Got my recipe card and going to copy it down. If you want it just a little bit spicy hot, we cut up one Jalapeno deseeded and mix it in. If you want it real hot then get you a really hot Chinese pepper. One will do and make sure you wear gloves. Those things will burn you for a couple of days.

I also love that canning funnel.

Looks delicious Yum 😋

Ah!! Now I understand pepper jelly! I’ve seen it at farm stands but didn’t understand! Thanks! ❣️it’s a specialty for sure, enjoyed watching you make it🥰

One of my favorites with my mom’s pepper jelly!

Oh my that looks good, I’m going to have to try it.

Thank you for showing this. Great instruction. I’ve never seen this before. I’ve been wanting to learn. ❤️❤️

Sounds delicious Ms Tipper. I think I'm going to like this pepper jelly on fried cornbread. Blessings Ms.

Your cooking videos always make me hungry. I would go for the hot/sweet pepper mix. Looks so yummy!

Pepper jelly looks so pretty in the jars! tfs!

Thank You Ma'am

Yum I’ll definitely have to try this. I’m so happy I found this channel it’s just wonderful 🥰

Yum! My mom made some last summer and I usually just spooned it onto a bagel with cream cheese, which was good, but I’ll bet it is even better on cornbread! I just love your videos! ❤️🌶

Love that pepper jelly ! Like you tipper , I can't handle the hot peppers....I like pepper jelly like you ,on cornbread, also like it with cornbread and beans.....enjoyed this .....thanks tipper....God bless 🙏

I love it just like you like it Tipper. I could eat the entire thing.

i love that old GE. Reminds me of my grandparents back in the 80s who had one.

I love peppers! Thanks Tipper!

That is the first time I’ve heard of sweet pepper jelly. I’ve had hot pepper jelly. I will definitely try this. Thank you!

Great recipe and very clear video. I have a dish pan full picked, as we may have our first frost this coming weekend. I put a big spoonful on a saucer and dip cheese cubes in it for a late night snack. The sharp cheddar and sweet pepper jelly go so well together. Thank you Tipper. The little 4 oz jar you filled is what i put homemade salves in.

Nice recipe - Thanks!

That looks sooo good, I make green tomatoes apple chutney with a few goose berries in it and three French spices!