Where To Buy jelly Bags and Spice Bags
Ray Creveling
method is Ok for spices but, I don't want anything getting in my
jelly. Suggestions appreciated
Ray Creveling
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Ray Creveling wrote:
I was looking for them too, after trying the obvious places(make your
own wine,beer stores, Wal mart, gourmet places, etc.)our local Ace
hardware actually had the things...I would have never guessed though.
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Kitty
I bought a jelly bag at walmart last year. it came with a round frame
and three legs which should sit on the rim of the pan. the jelly bag
had an elasticized mouth. the whole apparatus was so shaky that it
collapsed quite a few times and if I hadn't been desperate to get that
Choke cherry Jelly done I would have returned that flimsy thing.
I would appreciate learning of a better way of getting the juice out
of fruit, I am supposed to go out to CO again next year and who knows if
I will find any choke cherries and want to make some jelly.
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George Shirley
food through the sieve, the other has a handle and a hopper and you crank the food through a screen
that allows the juice to come out into one bowl while the seeds and skins go into another bowl.
Usual cost is about 50-60 bux. Look online and you will probably see a picture of one.
George
Reid, Diane [CAR:W644:EXCH]
I've used a number of types of cloth, including waffle weave dishcloths
(new ones, naturally).
Sometimes I use a needle and thread to sew around the edges and then
pull the thread to gather it. I've also just sewed string to the 4
corners.
I hang the bags from my cupboard door handles over a bowl. Works great,
looks rather messy, but is cheery & cheap.
Diane
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Grandma
They're wonderful for mushing up stuff to make things like applesauce but
completely out of place when what you want is a nice crystal clear jelly.
The easiest way that I know of to make a "jelly bag" when the real thing
isn't handy is to line a large colander placed inside an even larger bowl
with an opened WHITE pillowcase.
Never use anything that has been printed or dyed as the chemicals can leech
into your food.
Grandma
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David J. Braunegg
guess you could go to a fabric store and buy some muslin and sew it up
into a bag, or even just gather the edges and tie it up (probably hard
to load, though).
Dave
Sandra P. Hoffman
<d...@mitre.not-this.org> wrote:
>My parents always used a *large* muslin bag for all of our grapes. I
>guess you could go to a fabric store and buy some muslin and sew it up
>into a bag, or even just gather the edges and tie it up (probably hard
>to load, though).
Take a square of washed unbleached cotton muslin. Lay it into a
colander sitting inside a stock pot or bowl. ladle or pour whatever
you are straining into it. Tie the diagonally opposite corners
together. Rig up something to hang it by the knots over a bowl. Say a
wooden spoon or piece of dowelling supported by the rim of a bowl or a
stock pot.
I have not yet made jelly, so have not used this personally, but it
should work. I have used a similar method to drain yogurt to make
lebnah.
It can be hard to find muslin. A specialty fabric or quilting store is
the best bet.
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Sandra Hoffman he...@magma.ca
Ellen Wickberg
bags. I don't know if they are still available, my youngest kid is 37 and
she uses presewed diapers for her little one. Ellen
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George Shirley
Unfortunately they're rapidly wearing out so I bought one of those cotton bags that fits on a bowl
stand. Never have had a problem with it so far except it's too small. Reckon I'll have to buy some
muslin now and make some "diapers". Didn't buy the expensive plastic sheets to use in my dehydrator
to dry small herbs either. Bought two yards of nylon netting at the discount fabric store and cut
out my own, work like a champ.
George
David J. Braunegg
pack of cloth ones (basically, cloth rectangles) to use as spit-up
cloths for shoulders during infancy. So, they still are sold. But they
do seem to be thin. Do you double yours or are they OK as-is?
Can I trust the diapers if I wash them in a hot water bleach load, or
should I buy new ones?
Dave
George Shirley
use hot water in the washing machine though, just warm with cold rinse. Never fails to get things
clean. The bleach will kill any disease organisms that are in there. We have a Speed Queen washer
(standard disclaimer) that holds 25 wet lbs of laundry. A half cup of bleach does the trick on a
full load.
George
Ellen Wickberg
used, twins and another one 11 months younger, but washed out well. I
didn't bother bleaching them. Ellen
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Kitty
> It can be hard to find muslin. A specialty fabric or quilting store is
> the best bet.
>
In the USA, Walmart has it, both bleached or unbleached
Kitty
> Didn't buy the expensive plastic sheets to use in my dehydrator
> to dry small herbs either. Bought two yards of nylon netting at the discount fabric store and cut
> out my own, work like a champ.
LOL, I did that too. cheapskates aren't we?
The Cook
Old cotton sheets work very well. I found some nylon to use for sheers
on the windows. Cut a chunk from that and it also works well.
Susan N.
Melba's Jammin'
<basye...@floodcity.net> wrote:
> I bought a jelly bag at walmart last year. it came with a round frame
> and three legs which should sit on the rim of the pan. the jelly bag
> had an elasticized mouth. the whole apparatus was so shaky that it
> collapsed quite a few times and if I hadn't been desperate to get that
> Choke cherry Jelly done I would have returned that flimsy thing.
> I would appreciate learning of a better way of getting the juice out
> of fruit, I am supposed to go out to CO again next year and who knows if
> I will find any choke cherries and want to make some jelly.
>
>
> --
> Kitty in Somerset, PA
> mail to:basye...@floodcity.net
> http://eboard.com/sewingstuff
Kitty: I haven't make chokecherry jelly in many, many years (won a
couple blue ribbons with it when I did, though!) and my recollection of
it was that it took forever and a couple days to strain. :-) With that
in mind, were I to do it again, I would cook them in some water (maybe
1/3 to 1/2way up the volume of the berries in the pan, mashing a couple
times with a potato masher when they softened. Then I'd pour them
through about 2 layers of dampened cheesecloth for the first straining.
Then I'd rinse out the cheesecloth and pour the now-strained juice
through about 4 layers of cheesecloth (I like cheesecloth!) for a final
straining. Should get rid of most, if not all, the solids. HTH.
-Barb
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Melba's Jammin'
<d...@mitre.not-this.org> wrote:
> My parents always used a *large* muslin bag for all of our grapes. I
> guess you could go to a fabric store and buy some muslin and sew it up
> into a bag, or even just gather the edges and tie it up (probably hard
> to load, though).
>
> Dave
Ready, Dave? One of my favorite juice strainers was an old diaper.
Yes, a used diaper. That had been used, washed, and bleached a
bazillion times. So, there! <grin>. A couple old 'floursack'
dishtowels served nicely, too.
Melba's Jammin'
<d...@mitre.not-this.org> wrote:
> Well, my youngest is 3, and we used disposable diapers,
Tsk, tsk! See what the world's come to! :-) Those things were just
coming into vogue when I birthed my first -- they were used only for
traveling -- too expensive and, besides, I loved to hang dry and fold
diapers. There, no day's complete without a little useless
editorializing! <g>.
>but we did buy a pack of cloth ones (basically, cloth rectangles) to
>use as spit-up cloths for shoulders during infancy. So, they still
>are sold. But they do seem to be thin. Do you double yours or are
>they OK as-is?
Thin, huh? Hard to know how thin you're talking (don't try to describe
it, ok?). Were I you, I'd use one layer if they thing is new-ish. If
you think it's too thin (I know, I know, how would you decide? Just
decide for yourself.), double it. I line a colander with mine and pour
the plums through it.
>
> Can I trust the diapers if I wash them in a hot water bleach load, or
> should I buy new ones?
See another of my posts, same thread. :-) (Hot water/bleach load is
fine.)
-Love,
Mom "-)
>
> Dave