My Mother’s Currant Jelly

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables

By Elizabeth Schneider

Published 1986

  • About

Method

My mother, Nina Schneider, is an unstoppable gardener who changes the tilt of trees, the lay of the land, and the number of fruits a shrub should produce to suit her vision of the world. So, despite her reluctance to stop gardening long enough to make jelly, when her currant bushes on Martha’s Vineyard overflow