Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you are new, please smash that like button and do subscribe if you enjoy the readings. I'm here every Sunday through Thursday, 10.30 p.m. Eastern. Keep in mind some of the messages may or may not be for you. This is a channel for Virgos, Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus, but all signs are welcome. Okay Virgos, and if you want to get a personal reading with me or Brandy, there is a link in the description box below. Just click that link and go ahead and book your reading. Alright Virgos, let's get into this reading. What are the messages for June? What is the drama, the llama, drama, llama for you? Okay, heart with a key, welcoming love, meeting the one, opening your heart, getting together, and a sense of perfection. And I'm sure that rides right down your alley, Virgo. Having that perfect love. Let me see. Okay, you've got talking. Virgo, interested, conversing more, an awaited message arrives. Text, call, email. Okay, and who, soulmates. Oh, I can already tell you right now where this reading is going, Virgo. I can already tell you. Okay, soul connection, partnership agreement, soul contract. So, wow, looks like we've got some new love for June for Virgo. Hala, let's see. What's the romance, angels? Okay, so yeah, you're meeting someone and this is your person.  There's going to be some communication, either some texting back and forth, some phone calls, some emails, a message comes in that you've been waiting to hear from someone. Let me see.  Nice. Okay, someone's making the effort. Great love is worth taking, the steps guided to take. Somebody's coming in and making the effort here with you, Virgo. In June. In June, June is the month of love. June should be the month dedicated to love. I think February is, but June should be. Okay, we just got through that full moon in Sagittarius. A lot of setting new intentions that is safe for you to love. Open your heart to give and receive the highest energy of all. Yeah, so definitely some new energy coming forward in June. Since this full moon, the next full moon will be July 3rd. And OMG, okay. So, there's some of you, this is the best life, a past relationship for others. This is like, where do I know you? This is somebody new and it's like, have we met before? Like, soul to soul recognition. Okay, so let's get into this reading. Who is this person coming in for Virgo? What is the energy? What is showing? Oh, well, these three just flipped out. Okay. So Queen of Cups, Cancer Scorpio Pisces. Okay, this person sits in a position of single, independent, don't need no woman, don't need no man. Okay, but you know what? That's a protective kind of thing.  I'm on my own. I don't need anybody. I'll stay by myself. I'm fine. They kind of have that vibe about them. Okay, but it's really because they're just trying to protect their heart. So this is somebody who, I just kind of feel like they've had a heartbreak in the past or there's been some pain in the past.  Like this is somebody who is single as Bringle for sure. Okay, showing up here. Now let's see. What else can you tell Virgo about this connection with this person? Let me see.  Like they got some or maybe there was an argument or you guys are just not talking. I mean, I don't see this person with anyone else. I mean, that doesn't mean they're not talking to other people, but there's no one else significant like there that it's just them. Okay, so I feel like I need to put that out there. Let me see what else is going on here. Okay. Wow. Yeah, this person's really like guarding their heart. They're just okay. Oh my gosh. They're very defensive.  I'll never go. This person, if it's not a poverty mindset, I mean, it's just an energy of someone who's like completely broke. They don't have a job or they don't have enough money, you know, five or there's just an uncertainty in or they've had some changes in their career or their work life. Things are they're trying to hold on to their job. Yeah, there's a lot of struggle here. Okay, let me see. What else is going on with this person? Okay. All right. Wow. Okay. So I will tell you what, they do show up here with these two cards here combined, the four of cups and the nine of cups. This person is very picky, very, very picky. Love comes in and they're just like, nah. And then somebody else comes in. Nah.  And I feel like that's you. No, maybe you know them, maybe don't. I don't know. But this is the wish card. Like I feel like this person is kind of like wishing on a star. They're wishing and they're hoping they want joy and happiness. But you know, after the nine comes to 10, and I feel like this person gets offers. They get a lot of love offers. Okay. And there's a lot of people that offer love to them that they these other people are like, Oh, I want to marry you.  And they turn people away because they're very picky. Like no one, it feels like this person's kind of in this energy of like, you know, no one's really up to par. So yeah, just very picky and very selective. But I feel like, you know, I mean, I feel like you make a connection with someone here.  Because I feel like you might be picky too, Virgo. You might be a little bit like, now this person wears their socks way too high up on to their knees. Next. No, this person only makes five figures. I need to make six figures. I mean, come on, now Virgo, you're not that picky area. You know, it's kind of like, this person, they don't dust their light bulbs. Like me, I need someone that's like going to be all up in dust in the light bulbs. Like that's a big thing. Virgo, so you might be like a little picky too. That's all right. You know what, picky selective, you should be to some degree.  And I feel like there's this, oh, you're perfect for me. Oh, you're perfect for me too. That, you know, I feel like I'm in fifth grade. What the hell's going on? But yeah, I feel like that's the energy that's playing out. Like two people connect and it's like, you know, you're perfect for me. You and it was a past person, you've always been perfect for me. And you both kind of feel that way. You know, but anyway, for the past people who are wanting a past person back. And when I say past, I'm not, oh, listen, when I say the past person, it just means someone from now till like the day you're born. It could be anywhere in between there. I may not be talking about that last person that you just ended that relationship with and you don't want back for those of you who are in that situation. You know, this could be somebody from before them or long before them. Okay. All right, let's see what else is going on here with this energy with this person. Because there's this like, I don't know, meeting the meeting the one perfection. I feel like this is really good. I feel like this is really good. And if there's separation, there is like, somebody who's going to reach out to you, the awaited message, you're going to get some kind of communication from this person. And the reason this person is even messaging you for some of you could be a response to something. But the reason that this person is reaching out is because you are the perfect one for them. Okay, let me see how does this person feel about Virgo for the pasties pasties pasties. How does the past person feel about Virgo for those who are kind of like, Oh, yeah, two of cups this is like eternal love met my match perfect for each other. That's the energy of the past. Okay, so again, not that person that you and they like not the person that was cheating not the person was abusive not talking to you. That's done be done with that if you're not done with that. Okay, I'm talking about this other one. Okay, so two cups definitely this is like magic. This is like romantic love partnership. This is mutuality to people who understand each other. This is like giving and taking look at how they mirror each other. It's almost in the shape of the letter H. I don't know. I've never seen that before. Maybe somebody's a physician or is in like the heat. Didn't we have this card yesterday? I don't know what's going on. But yeah, there's like this something's got some fancy red shoes. Let me just say there's an there's like, look at you too. Like if you stood in front of the mirror, right?  They've met themselves in you. Okay. So what's going on? Okay, I was just gonna ask this new person. Okay, so this new person was gonna take a while to come in. I'm gonna say that like they're slow. I know some of you are like, what hell's my lover?  That's why it's taken them so long. They're trying to get down from that tree. Okay, this person, picky selective and a little shy. Just a little to approach. They go real slow. They have a lot of anxiety they keep to themselves very much an introvert. And they kind of keep to themselves and they like to have nightmares like, Oh, what do I say? Or how do I reach out? Or, you know, should I ask that?  Should I approach first? Should I initiate? Should I ask out?   And it kind of that's a little bit of a way to hide like people hide behind texts.  You're the one. Let's go with like the very private, a very private person. Okay. Could be a Pisces as well. I could just see some of you now. No, no, not the Pisces. Well, Pisces definitely has a thing. Okay, or will have a thing. Let me see if I could see maybe who the past person is. Because I feel like we got a couple of separate readings here. And I guess I gotta address them both now because spirit's calling out. Okay. So past person could be a Scorpio death card. There is a Scorpio card. Let's see if we can see any more info on who the new person is besides being a Pisces. I do feel some water energy. Let's see. I swear, if I come up with a shy, a shy lion, a shy Leo, I'll just like, what the heck? That's like doesn't even go together. I guess there's Leos out there that could be shy though. Okay. Well, this past person like they're so insecure. Yeah, they got a little bit of that. I don't know Virgo. Some of y'all, I just, I don't know. Some of you are like, I am not dealing with someone who is like so picky and selective and super shy and doesn't know what they want and can't take the lead. Listen, I can't, I can't pick and choose for you. I'm just giving the message. This is like someone who's coming forward. Okay. Little more of the past. Okay, could be an Aquarius. Yeah, so I'm not the past, the future, the new. A little bit of an Aquarius there. Very hopeful. Oh, I hope that Virgo will accept my love offer, accept to go out on a date like, jeez, a little skittish this person. A little bit skittish. Okay, that's all right.  Let's see what the messages of love are here. Now, for some of you, listen, as I always say, this could be happening both simultaneously, right? This could be happening simultaneously, you know?   This is, you know, whatever. We're going to overcome some obstacles, whatever problems, you know, let's talk that kind of energy. All right, messages of love for the past and the new. Okay, vulnerability. So this person wants to open up to you, to be completely open with you, this past person. They want, they're going to try to be vulnerable with them, you know, open up, tell you how they feel, let you in on their little secrets, their little things that maybe there wasn't any sharing about from before.  Okay, but they're taken, yeah, and so they're going to wait, like, I do feel like there will be some communication from a past person. I do. It's going to be a little bit before they reach out. I mean, I do feel like in June, so for some of you, you've been waiting for a really long time for others. You haven't been waiting and then boom, they just show up, but there is an energy of like they're waiting for the right time to open up. Not so much to reach out and say hello, but waiting for the right time to be vulnerable and to open up and to, because they're waiting to see if it's safe for them to do that, so that you're not going to claw them to death about something. If there's something to claw someone to death about. All right, let me take a look at this new person. Oh my god, get out. Soulmate for the new. You know what, Virgo? You do what you got to do. Okay, just because someone comes in, I just want to say that. I know some of you want to try to heal and repair a past thing. That's fine. Do what you got to do. Just because somebody new comes in, it doesn't mean that you have to do anything. You might just say, oh yeah, there's like soulmate number 12. You might compare. Some of you might be like, you know, I don't think this past thing's going to work, but here's, I do have somebody else waiting in the wing, so let me see where that goes and some of you might just say, ah, you know, there's somebody new coming in here, but you know, my past person's coming back and wanting a second chance and I'm going to try to see if I can fix that with them.  It could both be happening. You know, it could be simultaneous both it's happening or for others it's just one or the other, but it's really not. It's pretty much both. Okay, there's a true love seeing somebody new that could turn into a true love scenario. Virgo, Virgo, Virgo, Virgo. So is so much drama. Really? Because we're living in a material world. Let's see. There goes a true material girl. At least by the zodiac standards. I know some of you, material doesn't mean like gold and riches and diamonds and money material can also represent your earth, your earth people. Future plans and choosing a path. Okay, so the past person, you know, is choosing the path to go forward with you. Okay, and also to make future plans for the two of you together and I'm just going to start doing readings with like the old and the new. That way, you know, pretty much cover everybody. I think I'll just start taking a look at that for you guys going forward. Do it tomorrow too. See how it turns out. And let's see. I hope you guys do you like this music. I think I had it too loud yesterday. I'm just trying to make it more upbeat just so we have like more life's tough as it is. Let's let's be happy. Let's be positive. Okay, huh. So the new person, okay, anger, no one's situation. I don't know how I feel about this new person, honestly. Like, I feel like they have issues. Yeah, I feel like this new person has like some, I don't know if there's codependency, they have like secrets, they have a difficult time connecting. You know, they're hopeful, but they go real slow and yeah, I don't know. I feel like on a scale of one to ten, this new person might be somewhere near like a three or a four. Your past person looks a bit more promising as far like I would give them like maybe an eight and a half to possibly a nine, maybe eight and three quarters. Looks a little more promising, but I don't know about this new, you know, we can have soulmates. We can have hundreds of soulmates. I mean, my dog is my soulmate, like, and I'm not trying to marry him, but it's just that sometimes just because we have a soulmate connection doesn't mean it's meant to be romantic or not. Sometimes soulmates could just be great friends, you know. Sometimes we have like that work family, you know. These are like our work husband, our work wife, you know, just the term. We're soulmates, but there's, you know, there's nothing else. It's not going any further than that, you know what I mean? And I kind of feel like this new person that you connect with, yeah, I mean, I feel like you're okay, Virgo. I just don't, I see them, maybe it's a Taurus. I just kind of, I don't know, could be Aquarius, like I said, or Pisces, could even be a Cancer. I just get a sense that they're kind of like, oh, you're not going to go out with me? Get really like priority angry, that kind of thing, you know. Okay, yeah, that's a message, huh? That's a message. I want to just pop in a couple extra things here. Let me just get a little extra information for these two different people here coming in.  You know what I mean? So I'm gonna go have ice cream. Okay, past person showing up as a twin flame. Obviously this new one is showing up as a soulmate, so I don't know, Virgo. That twin flame connection that makes it kind of hard to let go. I am not talking about your false twin flame. I have to say this every time.  That's not your soulmate. That's just an A-hole. That's not your twin flame. That's just an A-hole. And that's not someone, like, unless they get some counseling or therapy or something. No, bye-bye. Keep it moving. Okay, so twin flame, positive energy. Some of you could have been married to your twin flame when you were like 20, and something, you know, I don't know, something happened. You guys went into separation. All right, so the new person is, you know what, they're part of your family. Maybe it's your work wife or your work husband that's like, you know what, I'm actually like really in love with you. Or they're connected to your soul family, or your actual family, or some groups that you have been communicating with them before, or you don't know them directly. You know, they could just be someone who you're connected to through some kind of family or origin, or something like that.  And then so all of a sudden an option pops up. Virgo's like, wait, what? I'm trying to heal. I'm not trying to, some of you I know, you are like, I'm not trying to get in another relationship. This person was a family. They want to have like kids, and like do the whole nine yards. And I know if you're up there in age with me, y'all are like, those times are gone. That's over. I've been there and done that. So for some of you, if you're, and I'm talking about those of you who are older and female, and that time has passed, okay, they just want to like meet your family, be a part of the family. If you have kids, be a part of your family, that kind of energy, bring you into theirs. That's that new person. And I feel like this past person, they're like, they don't even have that energy.  Now for some of you, I have to give you a caveat, because I just noticed on this twin flame card, it does say karmic. So for some of you, yeah, I know, watch your, watch your P's and Q's with that, because it is possible.   Listen, sometimes we all say the wrong thing, right? Hopefully people will forgive us for, you know, saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing, you know? But there is no, like there's no, anyone that tries to destroy your soul or just destroy your spirit, period, just spirit, whether they're physically destroying it, financially destroying it, verbally destroying it, mentally and emotionally trying to destroy your spirit, there should never be, and this is just my opinion, and I'm pretty sure most of you agree with, there should never be a reconciliation with that type of MFR, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, okay, because that person is broken. If anything, they need to reconcile themselves to the police, so they need to reconcile themselves to psychiatric, point blank period, right? That's how I feel.  So I feel like I just said that twice, you know, it's whatever. Let's see the physical features. This reading is not going to be super, super long, you guys. I know you like the really long readings, but yeah, not happening tonight. Okay, so the past person is tall, tall, tall, tall. If your past person was not tall, if they were very short, they might have been a karmic, okay? So your past twin flame, anything that doesn't show up here would have been a karmic, and then, you know, I don't know, maybe you might kind of talk to the new person. Let's see, what else, past person, okay, they were tall and they had short hair, okay? They're tall, past person tall with short hair, possibly even bald, short to bald hair, okay? So when I say tall, it's just taller than you.  That's what that means. Anything else? Okay, and then green eyes, okay? Our light colored eyes will go with light, green is a rarity, green or blue, okay? And then this new person, okay, a little thick, let's press a little thick, looks like they work out. Um, nice booty, okay? Average weight, let's see, what else? Curly hair, okay? Could be long, could be short. See what else? Okay, curly medium length hair, you know all the hairs keep showing up here, okay? They have piercings and they straighten their hair. All right, if that's a guy, like, I don't know, I'd never met a guy that's straightened their hair.  If it's a guy, they could have curly hair and they straighten it sometimes and they have piercings. Okay, whatever. Take those features with a grain of salt, stick to the main message though. I just wanted to throw that out there. It's kind of a little qualifier for some of you who are just like, okay, yeah, that just means even more. All right, let me see what the Chinese signs are here for you and this person. Actually, no, I'm just going to pick out yours. I'm just going to show you yours, a little qualifier for you. Also the other thing, let me just say, these features could also be you. Okay, so if you identify with any of these features, there you go. You take whatever what fits for you. Okay, that's how, that's usually how these readings go. They're not specific. Remember that. They might feel specific sometimes, but that's just because it's fitting you. I'm not being specific. I couldn't because I don't really know who I'm talking to. Let me see here. All right, so Virgo rat, Virgo dragon, rat again, Virgo snake, Virgo rooster, Virgo pig, monkey, Virgo goats, dragon again, and a Virgo tiger. All right, now if that's not you, it's okay. Doesn't mean the message isn't for you. All right, let's add a couple of names and other randoms to see what else we can get here for you, Virgo. I'm like, oh, this reading is not going to go long. It's already on 30-something minutes. To me, that's short, right? That's short. Okay, all right, somebody's a drummer immediately. Immediately, that just came to me. Somebody's a drummer, and might I add a rather successful drummer? Could be you, could be another person, right? Definitely a drummer. Let's see. They're also giving me a Capricorn too. Let's see. Somebody's name is, okay, at first they gave me Joe, then they said Jolene, and then they said Eileen, so it's one of those. Okay, all right. Wow, I'm not getting anything. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Someone's, all right, so the door, someone's door of their house has a half arch window at the top, half moon window at the top, door on their door somewhere. Okay, and someone keeps a lot of like books in their room a lot, like in the room or in their office. Someone's a book collector or just keeps books, like, dude, you've read that book already, like three times. Take it out to the yard sale, my friend, or put it in that little share a book box. You know, don't eat it. You're done with the book. It's time to move on, like over the books. I'm just hearing that, maybe you've been saying that to yourself. Some of you might be looking at those books and be like, you know, why do I keep saving these damn things? I mean, it's not like I'm gonna read it again. Now, some of you might have reference books, some of you might have self-help books, maybe have astrology books. Yeah, that's fine. Some of them are keepsakes, okay? You might be in a library right now, listening to this, drinking your coffee or in your coffee place or something like that. I'm just seeing a lot of books. You might be studying. Maybe your kids have a ton of books. There's just a lot of books.  There's just a lot of, I'm just seeing, I don't know, books. I've got the letter P as well, showing up here. And also they're giving me September 10th, okay? And September 2nd and Arizona, they're telling me Arizona, okay? September 14th, yes. And someone is connected, or dating, and there's a connection with a Libra also. Connection with a Libra, okay? And I also see someone surfing, like, I don't know, that's a Batman theme song.  I don't know. Yeah, a surfer, or someone maybe lives near a place. The name of the place is surf, surf something. Maybe there's a restaurant, like a surf, I don't know, surf and turf. Seafood, water, beach, surf. That's what I'm picking up. Or maybe you're at the beach, going in the beach, going in the surf. Surf boarding, surf. What do you do with surfs? Surf, boogie boarding, I don't know. Surfing, water skiing, yeah, on the water, on a craft, doing something. Okay, maybe that's a plan. We have the letter C and somebody's going to England. Hala, you know what, that just reminded me, but I don't know. Sometimes, like I'm supposed to go to I think I'm going to England in September. Yes, yes, yes. My invite is coming, it's on the way in the mail and I have been to Wales and I have been to Ireland but I have not been to the UK. And you know, the first thing I want to see is Buckingham Palace. That's like the goal. But yeah, so I'm really looking forward to that. Maybe I'll like do live stream terror readings from England. That would be so cool and if anybody is there, maybe we can have a meet-up. I'll be traveling a little bit around the area provided that you know we're not in a nuclear war or anything like that. You know what I'm saying? All right, let me see. Okay, you crack me up.  I just heard somebody say that. I'm not not talking about me. I just heard somebody use the phrase you crack me up. Who says that? Does anybody say crack me up?  I feel like that's a phrase that somebody uses like often.  If you know like maybe you say that to somebody or somebody says that to you but that's that's a phrase that's an old phrase that gets that that's used. I don't know that people say that anymore. That's like a real I don't know we used to say it in the 80s. Like you're so grody.  Do you remember that term? Grody. You are grody. Okay, I don't know. I'm losing it. Excuse me. Okay, let's get some numbers. Also for some of you, I'm hearing September 3rd as well. Okay, so Leo. Listen, I said Leo, right? I said a shy Leo. I guess they exist. I don't know. I've never met one but I'm picking up a shy. Somebody might be like a Leo. It's kind of shy. Leo, double Taurus, and Aries. And I did say Taurus. Okay. So, birth years 1975, 1960, 1972, 1962, 1995, and 1956. Okay, okay. Let's see. I need a little dice cup.  All right, 1212 keeps showing up here. So December 12th, significant day. Somebody's connected to a December 12th person. November 20th, significant day. And let's see, April 20th. Oh, that's 420. So whatever. We also have January 10th. And if I call a birthday of someone that you know, hey, that's definitely your message. I'm also picking up August 24th. Okay, let me see what the February, February. Well, do you know someone who's born in February? Let's see what the Virgo birthdays are. Okay. August 27th. I also have August 22nd, but you could have been born at like 12 a.m. when it went from the 22nd to the 23rd. Okay. So you're like seriously right on the cusp. Okay. August 23rd also. And September 8th. And September 6th. Real strong. September 6th energy. Okay. Let me just get some last four-digit numbers. All right. So we've got 7275. 1121. I'm making this easy for Steve. Whoa. And why can't I touch stuff? And where to go? It was a 6,000. 6,000. And also 6,004. Now you can switch this around however you like. You know, whatever you want to do.  All right. Let's get a, let's see a couple of more zodiac signs. What shows up? Aquarius, Scorpio twice and Pisces. And one more. Okay. Capricorn twice. Cancer and Sage. Okay. If I didn't call the sign of someone that you're trying to connect with or whatever, it's fine. It doesn't mean this is not your reading. You know, just go with the bulk of the message. All right. Let's get a charm. Oh, that's strange. So you have a black shamrock or four-leaf clover I should say. Oh, somebody's getting lucky. I don't know. I've never seen a black four-leaf clover. Look at all those hearts. Wow. A lot of love here. This is okay. I just keep, like, you're going to be very lucky.  That's all I can tell you. Just do some scratch-offs, you know. Fork out a dollar every day. That's 30 bucks, whatever. Do something because this is a lucky month for you. Virgo, for sure. Like, I mean, for sure. You're going to have like the pick of the litter here. Are you kidding? You guys, did you hear me? I was over there reaching when I was talking to get another charm. I'm not even kidding. If you can see my charms, one day I'll show you. They sit here in a little container and there's like thousands of them. Look, that's the second one. I just pulled that without even looking. I mean, okay, there could be a connection to Ireland, for sure, in June. But you know what? I'm not kidding. Maybe there's an interracial relationship. You and someone interracial and you're both going to go get lucky. You know, you're going to both be like, kissy, kissy, hugs, hugs. Something going on there. You know, numbing?  This is the good and young. Two people meant for each other, but which one? That's the question. Virgo, which one?  The new person is a little simpy. That's all I gotta say. Just whatever. It's not. I'm not trying to be mean, but yeah, simp. No, I don't know about that. Okay, so yeah, those are your charms. Getting lucky. Definitely. This is a lucky time for you. I don't care what you do. Everything you touch, turn to gold. So start reaching out and touching things. Just, you know, I'm leaving it there. That's enough. Can we keep a PG here, please, people? You know, like what's going on? Let's keep a PG now. Okay, anyway, personal reading. Link is in the description box below this video, right down there. If you want to get a reading with me, click on that link. Take you over to my booking site. Book your reading. Boom, you're done. And uh, join me on Sundays. Become a member of my channel and you can pop in on the Sunday livestream at 1 pm eastern and you can like just pop in that chat and be like, hey, can you tell me like what's going on with my person and I'll pull some cards for you. And yeah, that's pretty much it. So I'll see you all back here tomorrow. Have a fantastic day, night, morning, lunch, whichever. Make good choices, be happy, and I'll catch you all later.


Gems, jellies, and preserves can add zest to your family meals. They furnish an accent of color and flavor, and they provide a good way to use all those surplus fruits. In this training module, you'll learn to preserve quality fruit products in your own home. Hi, I'm Roxy Denstahl with the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This session will provide the necessary steps for making gems and jellies. There are six different types of fruit products with many similarities. All are made of fruit and sugar, and all are gelled to some degree. But while most of us use the terms gems and jellies interchangeably, there is a difference. Jelly is made from fruit juice. A jelly should be clear, sparkling, and hold its shape. Jam is made from crushed or ground fruit, cooked in a high level of sugar. Jam tends to hold its shape, but is generally less firm than jelly. Fruit butter is made by cooking fruit pulp down to a thick brown sauce. Alaska Highbush Cranberries make an excellent fruit butter. Marmalade is a thick jelly with pieces of fruit and peel suspended in the gel. Marmalades are usually made from citrus fruits. A conserved is a jam-like product made from mixtures of several fruits. A true conserved contains nuts and raisins.  Preserves have a very high sugar content. The equipment that's needed for canning gems and jellies is a water bath canner with a rack to keep the jars off the bottom of the container. You'll need a deep kettle to make your jelly or jam in. A jar lifter to lift the jars in and out of the hot water. Of course, you'll need jars with two-piece rings and lids. A spoon for stirring. You'll need some cheesecloth or a jelly bag for straining fruit. A canning funnel. A ladle. Towels, hot pads and paper towels for cleaning the top of the jars. You may need a wire whisk to get rid of the lumps in your pectin and either a candy thermometer or spoons for testing the gel of your product. And the final thing is a timer. Proper amounts of four ingredients. Fruit, pectin, acid and sugar are needed to make a gelled fruit product. First, let's talk about the fruit. Fruit provides a flavoring for your jelly, so selection and handling are critical to success. Choose top quality fruit that is slightly underripe or barely ripe. For apples and other hard fruits, add just enough cold water to cover the fruit in the kettle. For berries and grapes, use enough water to prevent scorching. Excess boiling tends to destroy the pectin, the flavor and the color. Commercial juice is clear and makes a nice product when it's finished. If you boil your own fruit to get the juice, your final product may have a bit of a cloudy appearance. The cloudiness is the natural pectin in the product. In the production of commercial fruit juice, pectin is filtered out. Remember that you don't have to use fresh fruit. You can use frozen juice from the store. Frozen juices and fruit punches also work well for making jelly. Pectin is a natural carbohydrate that causes jelly to gel. It's found in varying amounts in different fruits. Slightly underripe fruit contains more pectin than fully ripe fruit. Many recipes call for skins and cores as pectin is concentrated in these areas. How does pectin work? It forms a sort of a net within the product to trap bubbles of juice and sugar. That's what gives jelly its form. Pectin is available commercially in liquid or powdered form. Each recipe calls for a certain type of pectin, either powdered or liquid. Use the form that is called for in the recipe. Do not substitute as this may affect the outcome of the product. The type of pectin also determines when it should be added. Liquid pectin is added early in the process. Liquid pectin is added as a very last ingredient before the product is canned. Tart apples, gooseberries, currants, concord grapes, sour plums, cranberries, and citrus fruit all contain considerable amounts of natural pectin. Fruits that are low in pectin include apricots, cherries, our strawberries here, pineapple, peaches, and rhubarb. There are new pectins on the market that say no sugar needed. They make an excellent jelly with a strong fruit flavor. However, there are specific instructions that must be followed. Always refer to the instructions that come with your product. The acid used to make jelly, such as lemon juice, adds to the flavor and helps with the gel formation. Underripe fruits contain more acid than ripened fruits. Sugar also helps with the gel formation. It serves as a preserving agent and improves the flavor of your jelly product. Light corn syrup can be used to replace some of the sugar in a recipe. Without added pectin, one fourth of the sugar can be replaced with corn syrup. If powdered pectin is used, one half of the sugar can be replaced. If liquid pectin is used, two cups of the sugar can be replaced with syrup. Honey can also be used to replace sugar, but be sure to use a light, mild flavored honey. In recipes without added pectin, honey can replace one half of the sugar. If pectin is added, two cups of honey can replace two cups of sugar in most recipes. In small recipes, three fourths to one cup of sugar can be replaced by honey. Once you've gathered your ingredients, the fruit, pectin, acid, and sugar begin collecting equipment and supplies. A large kettle is essential for making jelly. You need a kettle of at least 8 to 10 quarts capacity. It permits the jelly mixture to come to a full rolling boil without boiling over. You'll need a large metal spoon, a clock, a watch, or a timer to check your times. You'll need a cooking thermometer. When making jelly from fresh fruit, you'll want to use cheesecloth or a jelly bag to strain the juice. To store your jam or jelly, you need jars, lids, and rings. This is a two-piece jar system that the lid has a ring of rubber on the inside. The metal ring screws the lid onto your jar and holds it in contact. The jar lids must be replaced each time you make a jam or a jelly. The rings may be used over and over again as long as they're in good shape with no rust. Rust creates a barrier that may keep the jar from sealing completely. Boiling jars can be reused as well. To check the condition of the jar, run your finger around the top. Check for chips or a crack. A chip or a crack on the top of the jar or rust on the ring may keep it from sealing. So check your jars carefully. For the boiling water canning process, you'll need a second large kettle for processing the jars. A jar funnel is useful for filling the jars and a jar lifter is necessary for moving boiling hot jars. In preparation for jelly making, sterilize the jars. Place your jars in boiling water to sterilize them. Anything that's processed for longer than 10 minutes doesn't require sterilizing the jars in advance. The 10 minutes of processing time will kill any microbiological activity that's in the jar. So if your recipe calls for 10 minutes of processing time, you can simply use clean, worst jars. Most jam and jelly recipes, however, suggest shorter cooking times so jars should be sterilized. The flat lids should also be prepared with a small amount of water. Always follow manufacturer's instructions. My instructions say have the water simmering, drop the lids in, bring it close to a boil, then turn the heat off. Keep the lids in the warm water to keep the ring of rubber soft. This will aid in the sealing process. With all your supplies at hand and the jars sterilized, you're ready to begin the process of jelly making. There are two types of jellies. Those that are made with added pectin and those made without it. The use of commercial pectin simplifies the jelly making process and yields more jelly per volume of juice. When you boil it longer, you concentrate the juice and it gels, but it results in less jelly. If you choose to use pectin, it will be faster and the jelly point is easier to determine. Jelly made without added pectin contains less sugar and has a fruitier taste. To prepare the fruit, we're going to cut, we're using apples today, we're going to cut them into small pieces, don't peel them, don't cut the seeds out, leave the cores in, we're going to put them into a saucepan. Now one thing to be careful about is if you have any bruises, make sure that you cut those bruises out because they will flavor your apple at the end. I'm going to cut up all my pieces and I'm going to put them in a flat bottom saucepan and add cold water. For apples and other hard fruits, we're going to add up to a cup of water per pound of fruit. If you're doing berries or grapes, you only use enough water to keep it from scorching. Cook until soft for apples, that's about 20 to 25 minutes, and grapes and berries only about 10. Don't overcook because it destroys the pectin, the flavor and the color. Once you've got it cooked, your apples are soft, you want to pour everything into a damp jelly bag or strain it through cheesecloth. If you're using the long boil method without added pectin, your juice goes directly from here into the pan to cook. Be sure to use the recommended recipe for the long boil. For instance, one of my recipes says to take 4 cups of apple juice, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 3 cups of sugar, stir well. Boil over high heat until it sheets from a spoon or if it's about 8 degrees over the boiling point of water. Then follow regular recommendations for canning. Today we're going to demonstrate jelly making because it's a little bit more difficult to prepare than some other jelly products. Following your recipe, prepare enough fruit for one batch of jelly or use commercial juice. Increasing the size of jelly recipes is not recommended because it may inhibit the jelly. In this example we've added 5 cups of cranberry juice, 5 cups of cranberry juice and a half a cup of lemon juice to the pan. We're going to use powdered pectin so we're going to open our powdered pectin and put it in the product. We always use powdered pectin before you've even turned the heat on. I'm going to use a whisk to make sure we get all the lumps gone. The low sugar variety of pectin is especially difficult to dissolve. In most cases, mixing a low sugar pectin with just a small amount of sugar can also help break down those lumps. Always follow the manufacturer's instructions. We're going to start the boiling process by turning on our stove to high. Jelly requires a high heat to gel. When your juice first begins to boil, you can stir down the bubbles. When the juice reaches a rolling boil, you'll no longer be able to stir it down. Cook at a rolling boil for one minute, time this process using a watch or a timer, then add your sugar all at once, stir the sugar into the juice mixture and boil it hard for one more minute. Again time the process, wait until it comes to a full rolling boil again before you start your timer. You'll notice that the volume increases dramatically when you add the sugar. A large kettle is necessary to keep it from boiling over. Stay close, stir frequently and watch the pot. Once you add the sugar, it can burn very easily. As your mixture boils, you will begin to see a lot of foam. Some recipes instruct you to add one fourth teaspoon of butter to the product to help stop the foaming process. This is optional. If you add too much butter, your jelly will have an unwanted butter flavor. Well, we're just starting to boil, so we're going to wait a little while until the process is ready for the sugar. So I'm going to watch this pot until the juice comes to a full rolling boil. I'll be back in a minute. Okay, I've got a full rolling boil, so I'm going to add in my sugar all at once. It's all measured, and as you see, it knocks out that full rolling boil pretty quickly. Now, once we've stirred in the sugar, we only need to boil it about one minute. Once it reaches that full rolling boil again, you can see that the sugar needs to dissolve and it needs to start boiling again. This kind of milky right now tells you that the sugar hasn't dissolved. As you can see, it really increases the volume. So I'm going to bring it back up to the point that it's at a full rolling boil, and then you can see what it looks like. As you can see, I've got a nice rolling boil. Lots of foam right now, but it's boiling just exactly like we want it. We stirred in our sugar, and now we come back up to a full rolling boil, so I'm going to check my clock, and I'm going to boil it one minute. Now, to make sure that I'm hitting the gelling point, there's one of three different methods that you can use. You can put a small amount of your jelly mixture into a bowl and put it in the freezer, and in just a minute it'll cool off and you can poke at it and you can see that it's gelled. You can dip a cool metal spoon into the boiling jelly mixture. When the two drops, it drips, drips, drips, and then it begins to come off in two drops, and then it sheets off the spoon. We know that the jelly is done. Some people like to use a candy thermometer and check the temperature. The gelling point is eight degrees above the boiling point of water, which is about 220 degrees here. So you take 212 and you add eight to it and get the boiling point. Now when your jelly mixture reaches the gelling point, turn off the heat and prepare to fill the jars. We're not quite there yet, but I'm going to boil it just a little bit longer. We've got about another 20 seconds. Now our minute is up, and as you can see, we've got quite a lot of volume here. This is why you need that extra deep pan. So let me take this out, set it to the side, and we're going to test it. And see it's just getting that long gelling point that tells me we are gelled. So I'm now going to let my foam die down. I've turned my heat off, and we're going to prepare to fill the jars. Now our jelly has finished. It's all gelled. Time to put it in the jar. And the first thing I'm going to do is to scoop that foam off the top. The foam is not visually appealing, but it doesn't hurt the product. As you can see, it's just another, it's just a little bit of trapped in air. It'll make your jar be not quite as pretty when it's sitting on the shelf. My family loves this part. This is what goes on the biscuits the next morning for jelly, for breakfast. So I guess I'll be making hot biscuits tomorrow morning. Okay.  When you're working with a hot sugar syrup, it's important to keep your jars hot too. The product is hot and the jars are not. The jars may break down from heat stress. It's a good idea to have your jars in the water that you've sterilized them in until you're ready to fill the jars with jelly. And I just pulled these out of my canner, as you can see my canner is working on the back of the stove, and I'm just going to fill this up. Before filling the jars, we want to make sure that we're going to use the spoon to scoop off all that nasty foam that we don't like as well, and we're going to use our ladle to fill up our jars within an eighth of an inch of the top. One of my shortcuts is I use a plate or something underneath these jars to keep me from spilling all over the top of my stove, and it makes it hard to clean up. Now, you can't always tell how high it is. You have to move it over so you can tell. And remember, you're using a really hot product and hot jars, so be very careful. Okay, now I'm going to get the rest of these jars all filled up, and it's ready to go. As you can see, the jelly has a beautiful color. That's one of the reasons that we really like to make jelly. It's that clear, almost jewel-like look. It really is pretty. So as you can imagine, almost any juice would work nicely for the product. I sometimes use frozen juices because they're so colorful. Can you imagine taking this jelly and putting it in somebody's Christmas basket? All this beautiful red jelly. A lot of people make jelly out of things that are unusual. One of the things that I've made before has been a jelly that's made out of peppers. And it has a beautiful green color, but hot peppers, the hotter the better. A little bit of spice and a little bit of sweet makes for a nice flavor. Now, we have all this ready.  The first thing I'm going to do, ooh, that's hot, clean the edges. This one could use just a little speck more juice. Don't quite have that eighth of an inch. As you can see, the canning funnel does a really nice job of keeping the edges clean. My jar lids on. Again, hot jars, hot jelly, hot lids. The only thing that's really cool is our rings. They should be finger tight to hold the lid against the jar. Now, you don't want to over tighten the ring as it'll compromise the seal. Jelly can be stored in the refrigerator after the jar is cool. As long as it's gelled, it's safe in the refrigerator. Because it has a high sugar content, there's less microbiological activity, but mold will still grow in the refrigerator. By processing the jelly using the boiling water canning method, you can ensure that your jelly will be kept at room temperature, can be kept at room temperature for up to a year. So we're ready to go in the canner. Now that my jars are ready to go, I'm going to place them in the boiling water bath. Again, we have a hot canner, boiling water, hot jars, and hot jelly. So all I have to do now is wait five minutes. It's boiling again, so I need to set my timer for five minutes and they'll be ready to go. So I'll come back in a minute and you can see the finished product. Then we'll make some jam. Jams are simple to make. They require cooking down a crushed fruit until it thickens. Some require added pectin, others have enough natural pectin for jelling. Again, always use an approved recipe. For our demonstration today, we're going to use blueberry jams that feature our Alaska wild berries. The recipe requires four and a half cups of blueberries, half a teaspoon of cinnamon, and a half a teaspoon of clove, the lemon juice from one lemon, the zest from one lemon, and seven cups of sugar. We also need six ounces of liquid pectin. We're going to open our liquid pectin and I've cut the tops off of them and they're standing up right in a cup or a glass. It makes them, they're particularly difficult to cut. So make sure you're ready when you put everything in. We're going to put our blueberries, the lemon juice, the zest. Lemon and blueberries have a really nice flavor together. And then we're going to add our cinnamon and cloves and our sugar.  At first, we didn't put any liquid in here. The only thing we're going to do is wait for our sugar to liquefy and the juice to come out of the berries. So we're going to have to stir it pretty closely here at first to make sure we don't burn anything. As you can see, lots of sugar and your berries. No liquid yet. Again, a high heat is necessary, you can get that liquid out of there. So stir it quite a bit at first to make sure that you don't have any trouble with it. Smells great. Blueberries just remind me of summertime. They have a heavenly odor and particularly when you add the cinnamon and cloves with them, my goodness, they make a wonderful jam. This is one of my family's favorite jams. So now you can see, look, we've got liquid already. So now that I've got it beginning to liquefy a little bit, it's a very simple jam to make. All I'm going to do is let it boil, let it come to a simmer, and I'm going to simmer it for about five minutes. See, got that liquid ready to go. Now I can leave it alone.  So the first thing I'm going to do, I have my simmering pan back here. I'm going to turn it off and drop my flats in so they'll be ready to go. The next thing I need to do is to make sure my jars are hot. I don't have to sterilize them because that my processing time is 15 minutes. Since it's longer than the 10 minutes allowed, I don't have to worry about them being sterilized. But it is still important that the jars be hot. If you take hot jam and put it in a cool jar, you could get some heat stress on the jar. So my jam hasn't quite gotten to the boiling point yet. Not simmering, but it smells good and that's a good thing. So what we're going to do is, y'all give me a little bit of time to bring it up to the right temperature and to simmer it for five minutes and then I'll be back and we'll package this jam. Our jam has simmered for about five minutes and it smells heavenly. So we're going to turn the heat off and allow the foam to go down. And we're going to add our liquid pectin. Six ounces is what's required for this recipe, which is two of the packages from a container. Now the pectin is added in the last thing before it goes in the canning jar. This particular recipe doesn't have a lot of foam, so it's all ready to process. My jars just came out of the canner where they are nice and hot and all I'm going to do is now to fill them up. Again I'm using a canning funnel and that canning funnel helps keep the edge of my jars nice and clean and I'm going to fill them up within a quarter of an inch of the top. And our Alaska blueberries make a really nice product. This particular recipe comes from our Alaska Wild Berry Book. If you don't have a copy of it, be sure to drop by your extension office and pick one up. My jar rims, my jar lids are ready to go. They've been heating in the water until they're nice and soft. These can make such a mess in your kitchen because they stain everything. I always laugh about in the summer, I always have blueberry hands. My hands can tell that they've been picking blueberries. Lemon juice, that helps kind of knock those blueberry stains off. I'm close to the top, I'm not sure I'm going to get a full jar out of this one. Put that little bit in there and this will save for eating in the next few days. My lids are ready. I'm going to clean the top. If something as simple as a stem or a seed might be on the outside and it will keep it from sealing. We want to make sure we get this all ready to go. They're ready to go into the canner for processing. Depending on how much you put in the canner, it may stop it from boiling. My two little jars didn't make a big difference. I'm going to go ahead, I'm listening to it, it's coming back to a boil again. So I'm going to set my timer and I'm going to wait for about 10 minutes and it'll be ready to go. So I'll come back in a minute when the jars are all finished and we'll label them. Does the boiling water canning method work? The one-quarter inch of room that we left at the top of the jar gives us a very small cushion of air. As we heat the filled jelly jars in boiling water, the air expands and it seeps out from underneath the rim. When the product cools, the air at the top of the jar shrinks and that creates a vacuum within the jar. The secret to canning is sealing the jar so that no microorganisms can enter. A deep pot will work for the boiling water canner and the pot should be filled with hot water. When all the jars are in place, one inch of water should cover the tops of the jars. Place a rack in the bottom of the pan to prevent the direct contact with the heat source. If no rack is available, you can always use jar rings. Direct contact between the heat source and the jars can cause heat stress and crack the jars. A jar lifter will help you move the boiling hot jars without getting burned. Now we've had our jars in here. They've been placed in the hot water. We've got the water boiling. They've been processing for 15 minutes. So now what we're going to do is to pull them out of there. Our jams require a slightly longer time for processing because they're thicker. You know our jelly that we just made a minute ago only required about five minutes of processing but our jam requires 15. Their thicker takes longer for the heat to get through to the center of the jar. Heat penetration is the key. We want the jelly or jam to be heated evenly to the center of the jar. Now if you live at a higher altitude, you may want to check with your local extension office to find out what that proper amount of processing is. Higher altitudes require longer processing times. As you can see, I've removed my jars from the canner. I have my blueberry jam and my cranberry jelly sitting here on the cabinet.  When your jars first come out of the kettle, the jar rings may be loose and the lids are probably going to be loose. Don't bother them. Allow them to cool off naturally. As the jars cool, the vacuum will form and you'll hear a nice little ping when the jar seals. Now we're going to check our seals but it's too quick to do it on these. So we're going to look at some that I did yesterday. So the first thing we're going to do is to look. Each one of your jars should have a slight concave on the top of the jars. Look at this one. It doesn't have a concave part. It's poking up. Okay, so let's listen. These have sealed. You can hear that clear ringing sound. Tells me that the jars are in good shape and they're completely sealed. Now listen to this one. Hear that dull sound? That tells me this jar hasn't sealed. So what I'm going to do is take this jar and put it in the refrigerator and use it first. Now as for the other jars, I'm going to mark them with the product. This is Seminberry Conserve. And I'm going to put the date so I'll know when I process them. Be sure to include the date, the name of the product, and the processing time. So what happens if your jelly fails to jail? Happens to the best of us some time. If your jelly fails to jail, it's either because there was not enough pectin present or because some other factor kept the pectin from doing its job properly. These factors might include inaccurate measuring, insufficient cooking, or overcooking, or a doubled recipe. Re-cooking may remedy the situation. If it doesn't, use the jelly as a pancake syrup, or a waffle syrup, or spoon it over ice cream. Now if you really want to make this into a jelly, then what you do is to pick up the publication called Remaking Runny Jelly and Jam from your extension office. We also have an excellent publication on using your Alaska wild berries that our spice blueberry jam recipe came from. Or be sure to pick up the So Easy to Preserve, which is our all-purpose reference. Now we hope you've enjoyed this training module on making jams and jellies. Visit our website for recipes and additional publications. Happy jamming!