
Muscadine Jelly
Ottie Mae Fincher
Habersham County, Georgia
Strained through a flour-sack towel hung off a chair back, never squeezed — squeezing makes it cloudy, and Ottie Mae will know.
- muscadine
- clear set
- biscuits
Jams, jellies, and preserves made from fruit picked close to home. Muscadine, fig, blackberry, and pepper jelly are all cooked down in small kettles. Made for hot biscuits and cream cheese on a cracker.
You picked when it was ready, whether you had time or not. Muscadines off the fence, figs behind the shed, blackberries paid for in chigger bites. These jars are what came of it.

Off the shelf, down the road
There's more than what hangs in the JellyBarn — pick a state and go treasure hunting through hand-checked makers down the road and a county or two over.
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Ottie Mae Fincher
Habersham County, Georgia
Strained through a flour-sack towel hung off a chair back, never squeezed — squeezing makes it cloudy, and Ottie Mae will know.

The Hattaway Place
Barnwell County, South Carolina
From a fig bush that came as a cutting in a coffee can when the family moved in 1954.

Corrine Latta
Marshall County, Alabama
Poured over a block of cream cheese and set out with crackers whenever company turns up unannounced.

Beecham Hollow
Pike County, Kentucky
Picked along the road ditches in July, seeds and all, sugar measured by the same cup for sixty years.