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Preserving beautyberry

Here are some freshly canned jars of beautyberry:

So first you pick and cook the beautyberries, then you strain them and cook them again, and finally, you can them in jars, as you can see Gretchen doing in the video linked through the little picture to the right.

Here is one batch of beautyberry jelly jars:

Pictures and preserving of beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, by Gretchen Quarte rman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 Oct 2010

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She told me not to video her:

But did I listen?

Video by John S. Quarterman of Gretchen Quarterman demonstrating preserving at a south Georgia event in Tifton by Georgia Organics, 13 Nov 2010.

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