Honeysuckle jelly

2c. Honeysuckle flowers
2c. Water
4c. Sugar
1 pkt of pectin (I used sure jell liquid)

Boil the water over the flowers, let it steep overnight. The next day, strain out the flowers, and pour the infusion into a pot. Heat it and add the sugar. When it's at a boil, add pectin and boil for about two minutes, stirring continuously. Pour into jars. It'll keep in the fridge, and you can waterbath can it.

I hate going to a blog and having to read their life's story before they get to the recipe. I understand it gets the page more views, but it drives me bananas. So there's the recipe, scroll down for my life's story ;)

I spent a lot of my childhood in a neighborhood with a large honeysuckle bush, and I've always adored eating the nectar from them. I was THRILLED to discover that our new property is covered in honeysuckle bushes. Of course I passed my love of the sweet flowers onto my kids. Shane was less enthusiastic about it, but whatever. I had recently had a conversation about making jelly from edible flowers, and I was dying to try it. I googled, and found a blog with a recipe, headed by a long story. As usual, I scrolled down to the recipe and ignored the rest. The recipe called for four cups of infusion, so I made a batch. It didn't set, and I couldn't figure out why. I went back to the same blog, and read the accompanying post and found that while she made 4c of infusion, she only used 2c and recommended not trying to double it since it wouldn't set properly for some reason. I don't know why she felt it made sense to say four cups in the recipe, when she only used two. I also learned my lesson about not reading the possibly important info in the post. Now I've got 8 cups of honeysuckle syrup, which is also very yummy, but I have no idea what to do with. I tried for jelly again, and it worked this time, so the recipe above should work for you as well. Enjoy, it's delicious and fairly easy. It tastes like sunshine, which is nice because it's been raining, a lot. Bonus of this whole project was that the kids had a great time helping pick the flowers.