I made jello, on accident!

[Archie778]

So I’m no expert at all, but I’ve gotten to where I can produce expected results. But this was unexpected, any ideas or tips?!

I had a bunch of persimmons growing in my front yard, so naturally, I turned it into brandy. I ended up with about 1.5 gallons of 140 proof persimmon brandy. It may be the best persimmon brandy ever, but I don’t love it (I am aging some in white oak right now, curious to see what happens).

So I didn’t love the brandy, earlier this year I also had about 60lbs of apples, so I ran them through my fruit press and made cider (some hard cider mostly just plain cider) and I got to thinking, I’ve got a few gallons still in the fridge, I should make apple pie persimmon moonshine! Those flavors should go together!

I cooked down some cider with spices and brown sugar, mixed with my persimmon brandy to about 80 proof and set it aside, the next day, i went to check it, and I had made mason jars or persimmon apple pie moonshine Jell-O shots!

I’m guessing there was a lot of natural pectin in the apple cider, has anyone had anything like this happen before?! How do I prevent it? I was thinking of adding a bit of citric acid to the mix and seeing if that disrupts the pectins without making it sour?