Harvesting American Beautyberry for DELICIOUS Homemade Jelly

[@johncoffey8645]

Probably the best video I've watched about this process! We are making some this weekend!♥️

[@allaboutliving]

Hope that you really enjoy it!! Let us know how it turns out so others can know the outcome outside of the video. Really appreciate that you took the time to let us know this video was helpful!!

[@johncoffey8645]

​@@allaboutlivingOh yes.... This is amazing jelly! Beautiful color. Very amazed of the color transformation, and the different aromas while boiling.😋♥️😋

[@allaboutliving]

Tammy makes this every year. Such an awesome addition to the pantry. Glad to know that you made this and it turned out to be a positive experience. Hope others find this and discover this totally awesome jelly!!

[@johncoffey8645]

@@allaboutliving Was raised like most, that this berry is poisonous... It actually has no flavor, until the last swallow. A touch of sweetness. But an awesome jelly!♥️🥃

[@johnmalone2196]

I've always heard them called deer berries. Going to try this.

[@smudgekids3203]

We have a plant that grows here in South Texas that’s called Beauty Berry, also, but it is not y’all’s Beautyberry. It does prefer cooler soil so it grows well around creeks. I like them. We have wild Texas Persimmons that taste sweet almost like figs & cherries. I meant to make jelly this year but cuz of the extreme heat & drought, I decided to leave the fruit alone for the wildlife. There’ll be next year! We do have a plethora of Prickly Pear Cactus. The huge pink & purple fruit is called a tuna. They taste like bubblegum & smell heavenly! Of course there’s a bazillion tiny hooked thorns that have to be singed off before processing the tuna. Oh. And have to wear snake boots & go with the dogs cuz it’s highly snakey areas. Rattlesnakes love PPC patches bigtime & often den nearby cuz the fruit attracts rats which is a feast for snakes. Lovely, right? Save me some Beautyberry seeds & I will write y’all soon. I’d like to see if I can get them to grow here. And yes I know they’ll spread like crazy. It’s fine. Almost everything here is thorny so it’ll be a change! We have a creek & riparian strip along it. Excellent growing for wetlands plants. Y’all be good & take care of each other! I’m sharing your videos on my FB page. I drool, Tammy! Hahaha!!!

[@allaboutliving]

We'll have to send some beautyberry starts. Seeds don't do so well. Send you address to our email. [e-mail]

[@kuntrylovehomestead1091]

I know I am almost a year later BUT I followed this recipe my very first time making jelly and first time having beauty berries and OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGG. It’s soooo good. Thank you for such an easy simple to follow recipe. I can’t wait to make more jellies with you. I gathered my ingredients and them make it alongside you pausing when I needed you to wait for me 😂 It was super easy.

[@allaboutliving]

It is good!! We do this every year. Will post this in the community section every august to give everyone a refresher course. There are other jams in down in the playlist somewhere, I think the playlist canning and food storage has a few. So good to hear from you. Thanx for watching!!

[@1SentPenny]

Hi Tammy! I’m always the last one to the party, but better late than never. 😂. I have never made jelly before nor have I ever had beauty berry anything. Boy oh boy, have I been missing out!! THANK YOU for the step by step guide AND your beautiful, encouraging personality! I am hooked - - beauty berry fan for life! I hope you and your family faired well from Hurricane Helene 🙏🙏🙏

[@allaboutliving]

You can do it!

[@pellis6928]

Tammy thank you for showing how to make your Beauty Berry Jelly. I've never tasted it but I'm sure it is delish. We are supposed to have nice weather this week in Alabama in the mid 80"s with low humidity and no rain..... That is very rare to get 5 to 7 days in a row of nice weather but the giant blood sucking satanic mosquitoes are still waiting on me to come outside lol.👍😃💙🙏

[@allaboutliving]

We feel your PAIN!!. DO NOT WALK NEAR THE EDGE OF THE WOODS HERE DURING THE DAY. THEY GETCHA !! When the sun starts to go down. RUN FOR COVER!!

[@voodookitchenmama]

Just picked my berries this morning! I make it every year and it's delicious. People love to be gifted a jar, too. I freeze berries to make more jelly for the holidays as gifts.

[@allaboutliving]

So cool!! This is an annual ritual. We so love this. We also make baskets at christmas and include a jar of this.

[@suchbunch]

I froze my berries and so many turned light brown I was afraid to use them. Did yours turn brown after freezing and how was the color of your juice/jelly?

[@annettem749]

Jelly looks amazing Tammy. A dab of butter when boiling will take most of the foam out of the jelly. Randy I made your Butt rub and it is awesome!! Ribs were so good!!!! Thank You!

[@allaboutliving]

Glad to hear it!! Tammy sez she'll try the butter thing next go round!!

[@happy2cya70]

Thank you so much! We have one beauty bush out in our yard but I'm gonna try to plant more. I never knew what to do with them, but I've always loved the plant! In the last couple years I have learned to can and make jelly. Can't wait to try this!!!

[@allaboutliving]

Watch out, they spread like strawberrys. The branch's will take root and run. They are very difficult to keep under control here.

[@donnaleveron5711]

​​@@allaboutlivingWhere is here? I've never heard of beauty berries. I'm in Texas, north of Dallas. Grew up in Southern Indiana where my Grandmother made the best black raspberry jelly. New subscriber.

[@carolynsinyard1306]

I have never heard of Beauty Berry Jelly and I have never seen any around my part of Arkansas. This jelly looks delicious. Have a blessed week.

[@allaboutliving]

Everything we have read about the beauty berry sez that they do grow in AK. Maybe not in yout immediate area. Just keep your eye's open. If you find some. Get some cuttings.

[@stacyturner5463]

I just discovered this plant when I moved to Knoxville last year. When I found out I could make jelly from them, I had to try. It was my very first time making jelly of any kind, but MAN, THE JELLY WAS AWESOME! Using a food mill after boiling them made it so much easier. This is now my favorite jelly, but I have to say, it was REALLY hard to get 6 cups from my tiny bush. I only got 3 cups, so I made a half batch.

[@allaboutliving]

It’s such a fun thing to try to make something out of something that is growing wild in your yard.

[@tracycornell9509]

I have watched this video multiple times and tonight I'm going to make my first batch thanks to you❤

[@allaboutliving]

Hope it went well. Let me know how this turned out!!

[@tracycornell9509]

​@@allaboutlivingTammy it is so delicious and me and my daughter have fun making it. My whole family loves it!!!! I would insert a picture but I do not know how to do it on KZbin

[@allaboutliving]

@@tracycornell9509 you could send an email to [e-mail]

[@suchbunch]

This recipe is absolute perfection!! Thank you so much!!

[@allaboutliving]

You are so welcome!

[@anatrujillo1658]

Wow! This is the best video I’ve seen about canning! I loved how u showed us how to harvest. You told us the ingredients and how much of it. You told us what tools you’re using. You led us step by step. Thank you!

[@nooncactus]

The name beauty berry fits. What a stunning color. Nature is grand. TFS 🩵

[@allaboutliving]

They are beautiful and the jelly turned out really well. We were ripping them out of the ground by the dozens until we found out they have all the attributes in a plant we were looking for. Made insect (skeeter) spray out of it too. Works really well!!

[@madisonstreet3948]

​@@allaboutliving Would you make a video showing how you made the mosquito spray?? I would love to make that too!

[@carlasworld8571]

Looks good. I've never heard or seen that kind of berry before today, is that regional to Florida??

[@allaboutliving]

Southeast -FL GA AL MS OK TX MD AK

[@tammykozinski3692]

I pick berries this morning and I can’t wait to taste this!! What do you do with the extra juice?

[@allaboutliving]

Jar it all up, put the piece of jars in the fridge and use it.

[@SusanBurroughs-c3l]

Love your video and can’t wait until our beauty berries turn ripe!!!

[@allaboutliving]

We had fun making it!! Thanx for watching!! We do the beauty berries every year. You'll enjoy it.

[@killerkill8190]

Country wemon are awesome. My 8yr old and 4yr old are trying this for the first time. My grandparents have all passed on to there reward... She is now my new nemaw

[@allaboutliving]

Awesome!!!

[@irenealvarado3494]

Well i put diet sugar see how that turns out ok. It taste great so far do i have to boil the jar i only made one

[@allaboutliving]

no, just one jar your going to use can go in the fridge.

[@Teamtne]

I’m about to make some with allulose to see how that turns out. It’s a rare sugar, about 70% the sweetness of sugar, and cooks, caramelizes, and crisps just like sugar. And it has no aftertaste like other artificial sweeteners.

[@irenealvarado3494]

Well i put diet sugar see how that turns out ok

[@allaboutliving]

might turn out like syrup. but it'll still spread and put flavor on a biscuit or pancake. never did it like that. the sugar boils and thickens. Let us know how it turns out so we can tell others. Hope it all goes well!!

[@irenealvarado3494]

So I don't put the actual berry in there

[@allaboutliving]

We're making a infusion. No berries in the jar. Just making jelly. Not Jam.

[@irenealvarado3494]

​@allaboutliving ok but can I put those lil berries in there I do like jam

[@cindysmith9364]

Jamie. I made beauty berry jelly last year it didn’t set. Can I still open jars and recook. Or should I just dump it ? Guess I should not have waited so long to ask this question

[@allaboutliving]

Use them for pancake syrup or pour over ice cream and/or cake. Still good. Otherwise dump them. We used them anyway. That happened my first time, then I did it like I do in the video and they come out everytime. Just need to make sure that you boil it until you cant stir it down.

[@cindysmith9364]

Thank you

[@donnaleveron5711]

Pancake syrup sounds wonderful, no way would I discard it after all that work!

[@Lady-bug-9000]

Wonder what happen. You tube letting me jave a bunch i havent seen yet

[@allaboutliving]

Alot of videos getting a little attention. Our last sit down video after the computer debacle is up to 3,000 views. Tammy's pantry video doing well. Almost 150 subscribers in a week. Not viral but a welcome change.

[@Lady-bug-9000]

This would have made my jelly attempts so much better. At least I'm seeing it now before harvest

[@jamessheridan4306]

Surprised to hear you fretting about mosquitos when, supposedly, beautyberries are an excellent insect repellent. At least that's what they tell me.

[@allaboutliving]

If a mosquito gets within 2 feet she starts fretting. She has beauty berry spray. I shake my head alot.

[@chrystinabush862]

Every year I say I’m going to do this and I wait too long. Picking berries today

[@allaboutliving]

Way to go!! Let us know how it turns out!!

[@Konnectedthreads]

Thanks Tammy i love your video . My jelly didnt set up . But its still yummy .i have beauty berries all over my 3 acres they are beautiful . Wish you were in texas we could be great friends.

[@allaboutliving]

My first batch didn't set years ago and used it for pancake syrup. I was trying to do to much a one time. Also make sure that it reaches jelling point when boiling. It's different everytime. Try again. don't give up. Friends

[@333ANGELLOVE]

I thought the sure jell could only be cooked for 2 minutes or it would deactivate it. So i cooked it awhile with sugar then addedl the suregell near the end and cooked 2 minutes. I hope it comes out. I have them growing in my yard. l​@@allaboutliving

[@allaboutliving]

​@@333ANGELLOVE Tammy sez that will work. She just always mixed it with the sugar and cooked it like that. Thats the way her granny taught her. So that's the way she does it.

[@allaboutliving]

let us know how it turns out!!

[@333ANGELLOVE]

@@allaboutliving mine didn't come out yesterday. It's more like a syrup. This is the 3rd year I have been making it. The first time it came out so professional but now each time it's a challenge so I need to figure out the secret and do another batch. I still have berries to make another small batch or I could rework this one. How long does it last without the water bath at the end?

[@offgridprep]

4 1/2 cups of sugar in 3 cups of juice? I think your wrong maybe it 6 cups of juice to 4 1/2 cups sugar

[@allaboutliving]

Just verified and the video is correct. Tammy's jelly came out absolutely perfect. She uses this recipe every year. It's 6 cups of berries. 8 cups of water to make infusion. Then 4 1/2 cups sugar, 3 cups infusion and 1 suregel. Can't double batch. It will not set

[@irenealvarado3494]

So ites for a taste very unhealthy with that sugar can I alternate the sugar

[@allaboutliving]

Have never tried. It's alot of sugar. Use in moderation. Just a little here and there. Flavor spreads easy.

[@irenealvarado3494]

I put diet sugar taste great​@@allaboutliving

[@airons1895]

OMG! I live in Marion county Florida and I have a lot of these plants in my front yard! I'm so glad I found this video and now to know I can make jelly with them... THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing!😂

[@allaboutliving]

We do this every year. Great gifts and tastes good too!!

[@BackyardNatureyt]

So glad found this one. I've been canning for years, but never messed with jellies. We have 10 acres of former paper pine forest in North Florida, now a lot of native plants are returning and Beauty Berry is one of them. Birds love them, but then I found out I could make jelly. First batch, different recipe from yours, came out more like syrup, but DELICIOUS!! I picked more yesterday, will be making yours today. I know I didn't boil my first batch long enough. I eventually want to experiment with lower sugar recipes. I did learn that most store bought jellies are even more sugar ration to juice than most homemade recipes.

[@allaboutliving]

Sounds like you on the right track. Another viewer varied from Tammy's recipe and it turned out like syrup. Tammy made syrup also, then figured it out. Great Jam!! Better than Grape Jelly. It's awesome.

[@brithas]

Great Video

[@allaboutliving]

Thanx!! Hope you enjoyed it and will come back to visit us soon...............

[@branchingoutpermaculturewi4766]

i havnt made jam before but i have helped gramma do it and loved the results. i cant wait to grow and make jam so thank you so much for a great video

[@allaboutliving]

You will love making your own jam! 😊👍 Makes for great gifts too.

[@ChrisinOSMS]

I am going to try this this fall.

[@allaboutliving]

We do this every year. Thanx for watching!!

[@deannadunnam8324]

I planted 10 beautyberry plant 2 months ago. I hope it will be ready next year. It sounds so good.

[@allaboutliving]

Best of luck!! They will spread if the branches touch the ground. Kinda like strawberries. Stay in touch and let us know how they turn out!!.. We have so many around here and didn't know what we had. When we found out they are food, that changed our whole outlook. The jam is so so good!!

[@suzannehousden1779]

Fun great fun I have those plants thank you

[@allaboutliving]

We make this every year. Hope you have as much fun making this.

[@Gruin]

Great Video, As they say in New England, "The Finest Kind." Thank You...

[@allaboutliving]

We are glad you enjoyed it! Thanx for watching!!!😊👍❤️

[@JoannaMerrett-b5w]

Thank you thank you!!!! This jelly is amazing

[@allaboutliving]

It is amazing!! Made peanut butter and jelly sandwichs today with this jelly and it was AWESOME!!!

[@cherylcorbitt4540]

Thank you!

[@allaboutliving]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!