THE Grape Juice Recipe

I can't tell you about the wonderful grape juice concentrate recipe yesterday

without actually posting it

(Here you go, Jenn! :) )

 (The grape juice concentrate is up there in the left-had corner).

Besides my just being nice, of course, by posting it here for you,

my other reason is that it is a tiny piece of paper that the Amish woman wrote it on,

and if I put it on here, I know where to find it if the paper happens to get misplaced.

Here is it:

Grape Juice Concentrate

10 lb of concord grapes

7 cups of water

3 pints of sugar

Pull grapes from stems and remove bad ones.  Measure out 10 lbs. and put into a large bowl.

Add the water.  Crush the grapes (I used a potato masher).  Then add sugar and press some more (she made sure to tell me that the grapes should be pressed before adding the sugar).

Run through a Sauce master or something to separate the juice from the grapes.  

Heat to a full boil and then fill jars and process as for grape juice recipe.
(Ladle hot juice into jars leaving 1/4" headspace.  Adjust two piece caps.  Process in a boiling water bath canner for 15 minutes: pints and quarts).

(My other recipes in my books say not to boil the grape juice, but I did per the Amish recipe and it tastes great).  

The juice is a concentrate and can be mixed 3 qt. water to 1 qt. juice, although I like mine sweeter and less like a koolaid, so I usually find 2 qt. to 1 is better.  Adjust to your own taste.