Blue Ridge Apple-Mint Jelly

Despite the South’s famous mint juleps, mint jelly has never enjoyed the popularity here that it does elsewhere in the country (possibly because lamb has never been a major meat in the South). One exception, I’ve discovered, is the unusual apple jelly flavored with mint leaves found in those areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia where tart, red-skinned Stayman and Winesap apple trees are cultivated and where wild mint grows in profusion along every river and stream