This recipe for how to make orange daylily jelly is a delicious, sweet and easy to make jelly, from wild orange daylilies that you see growing in ditches, fields and forests! I made a daylily jelly from several varieties that I have in my flower gardens. I also have the wild orange ditch lilies or tiger lilies growing in several areas of my yard. It is so prolific and great for certain areas that just need a simple low maintenance type flower which can grow in poor soil.
I decided I wanted to make jelly only with the orange daylilies. I was curious if the color would be different from the other daylily jelly I made, or if it would be orange, since I was just using orange daylilies. It turned out the same beautiful red color that my other daylily jelly turned out.
About Orange Daylilies
The orange daylilies or Hemerocallis fulva are different than other daylilies as they grow wild in forests, ditches and along roads. They are a beautiful flower which blooms in the late spring. The orange lily are hardy flowers which can grow in poor soil conditions and keep blooming throughout a dry spell. The fresh flowers make great cut flowers for floral arrangements. Other common names are Coastal Day Lily, Common Yellow Day Lily, Ditch Daylily, Fulvous Daylily, Orange Daylily, Tawny Daylily, Tiger Daylily, Common Day Lily, Double Daylily, fulvous daylily, ditch lily, railroad daylily, roadside daylily, outhouse lily, wash-house lily. The plant is found growing in forests, thickets, grasslands, stream-sides, meadows, floodplains, ditches, forest edges, cemeteries and cemetery prairies, woodland borders, areas along railroads and roadsides, sites of abandoned homesteads, and old flower gardens.
It is fun to be able to use edible flowers like daylilies to make something beautiful and delicious, like this wonderful daylily jelly!
Basic Steps to Make Orange Daylily Jelly
- Pick the daylily flowers
- Pull the flower petals off and tear them into pieces
- Add 4 cups boiling water to the petals
- Add lemon juice
- Place in refrigerator for 24 hours
- Strain the petals from the liquid
- Add liquid to the pot and bring to a boil
- Next add the powdered pectin, bring to a boil for one minute, and stir continuously
- Add 4 cups of sugar, stir to dissolve, and boil for 1 to 2 minutes
- Ladle the jelly into canning jars and water bath can for 10 minutes
Detailed Steps to Make Orange Daylily Jelly
Pick the daylily flowers. You will need 2 to 4 cups of petals from the flowers.
Separate the orange petal from the flower and tear the petals into pieces. Place in a large bowl or quart mason jar. I picked enough to fill the jar to get maximum color and taste.
Pour four cups of boiling water over the delicate petals using a canning funnel.
Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to the orange daylily water infusion. For best results, I think that adding the lemon juice at this stage brings out the color, which is demonstrated by the picture below. After adding the lemon juice the infusion immediately turned pink. Fresh lemon juice can be used or bottled lemon juice.
After it cools to room temperature, place the daylily infusion in the refrigerator for 24 hours. The color got even deeper after the 24 hours.
The next day, strain the petals from the tea using a fine mesh strainer, cheesecloth or coffee filter. You should have about 4 cups of liquid.
Add the orange daylily tea to a large pot or medium saucepan and add a package of powdered pectin. Stir it to dissolve the pectin. Heat on medium-high heat and bring to a gentle boil.
Add 4 cups of sugar slowly to the orange daylily jelly mixture and stir to dissolve. Bring to a boil for 1 to 2 minutes.
Turn off the heat and ladle the hot jelly into the canning jars. I made 5 half pint jars of jelly.
Fill the jars to 1/4 inch headspace. Wipe jar rims with a damp cloth or wet paper towel and remove the air bubbles.
Add the jars to the water bath canner and process at a full rolling boil for 10 minutes. I use the Ball electric water bath canner and love it.
Remove the hot jars from the boiling water bath with a jar lifter and place them on a dish towel on the counter. Do not disturb for 24 hours. Note: Sometimes it takes at least a day or more for the jelly to completely set up. Most of the time they are not quite set when you remove them from the canner.
Enjoy!
Enjoy the beautiful sweet daylily jelly with the slight flavor of daylilies. This homemade jelly made from this basic recipe would be so delicious with vanilla ice cream!
It is so fun to make delicious floral jellies from different edible flowers, and so fun for kids also. The different jellies make great gifts! My recipe made a beautiful red daylily jelly.
See my website at www.HawkPointHomestead.com for more flower jellies including my dandelion jelly recipe, redbud jelly recipe, lilac jelly recipe, peony jell, red clover jelly, daylily jelly and apple blossom recipe. I recently added my rose jelly made from rose petals. I plan to add more floral jellies next year including forsythia, lavender and bee balm jelly.
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Orange Daylily Jelly Recipe
This recipe for how to make orange daylily jelly is a delicious, sweet and easy to make jelly, from wild orange daylilies that you see growing in ditches, fields and forests!
Ingredients
- 2 to 4 cups of orange daylily petals
- 4 cups of water
- 1 package powdered pectin
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 4 cups sugar
Instructions
- Pick the daylily flowers
- Pull the petals from the flower and tear them into small pieces
- Add 4 cups boiling water to the petals
- Add the lemon juice
- Place in refrigerator for 24 hours
- Strain the petals from the liquid
- Add liquid to the pot and bring to a boil
- Next add powdered pectin, bring to a boil for one minute, and stir continuously
- Add 4 cups of sugar, stir to dissolve, and boil for 1 to 2 minutes
- Ladle the jelly into canning jars
- Wipe the rims and remove the air bubbles, add lids
- Water bath can and process for 10 minutes at a rolling boil
- Remove the jars and place them on a dishtowel on the counter
- Do not disturb for 24 hours
