Making jelly -- what to do with left-over fruit pulp?

I dehydrate and freeze unused fruits and unsweetened pulp. its great for suet cakes during the Winter. The birds really need extra calories and there's no waste! Just an FYI never spread suet (like peanut butter and bird seed) on a limb or pine cone craft project. If feet or feathers touch the fats its disrupts their waterproofing. They become cold and unlikely to survive. I put a skewer thru the suet cage so their tiny feet and feathers never touch it.

Some great ideas - I have grape pulp - lots of seeds, but tasty. Anyone got some ideas?

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I use it in smoothies and also home made breakfast oak bars. Delicious and very nutritious.

the left over blackberry seeds and pulp I push through a strainer, creating a wonderful paste that is very airy with a very strong blackberry flavor. Put some in ice cube trays to add to lemonade. Took some and put into tart shells family loved them. Getting ready to look up some candy recipes I noticed in one of my older cook books that uses fruit paste. The other thing is that with so much liquid gone it is easy to turn into a fruit leather.

Make some flavoured gin/vodka - put the pulp in a large jar (glass best as it will stain), add some sugar and vodka - leave it in sunlight and shake it now and again - there it is! I would suggest vodka for blackberry/apple and gin for raspberry pulp. I use it for cocktails or with prosseco - and my friend assures me that it will cure a cold :)

I picked 2 lbs wild blackberries yesterday and made my jelly today, then I read your page.. so I tipped the strained blackberries back into the unwashed jelly pan, added some water and about 2 lbs sliced ripe plums and back to cook until all mushy. sweetened to taste and poured into jars and sealed. I tried the left over bit with muesli, and yum yum it made a fantastic blackberry plum topping for icecream, yoghurt, cereal or whatever you like and I didnt waste anything !

Rather than jelly, I make a seedless jam by cooking the berries with a bit of sugar until they are soft, then put them through a fine mesh food mill. It is some work to get as much juice and pulp out of the berries, but what is left in the mill is mainly seeds. I then proceed with a standard jam recipe, adding sugar, pectin and sometimes lemon juice and zest, then jar up and water bath.

If it dosen't jell.

When I have leftover pulp from making BlackBerry Jelly I take the pulp and add some Grape or Apple juice and make Jam out of it. The pulp will plump back up. You have to be willing to play with it. I just made some. I used 4 1/2 cups of Blackberry pulp and 3 cups of Grape juice with 2 boxes of Sure Jell. It only made 6 pints but it's better than throwing it out. Its still setting up. If it dosen't he'll it will still be good on pancakes, icecream,Smoothies ect. It sure taste good. YUM YUM

Freeze-dry it and convert it into a powder? That's what I like to do with fibrous leftovers.

I feed it to my chickens as a treat!

Make margaritas if you have seeds strain make a simple syrup mix with tequila triple sec lime juice

Ahhhh - Now that I understand about shrubs (not garden variety!), this makes total sense.

FWIW: I just made my own beverage that I'm pretty pleased with. Zested 5 small lemons, then juiced the same (about 1/3 cup juice). Prepared a simple syrup (1-1/2 cups both sugar and water) with the zest included. Added about a cup of raspberry pulp and let steep. Once cooled to room temp, put in the lemon juice. Strained the whole thing to remove seeds. Filled a very tall glass with ice. Filled to about two inches with the raspberry/lemon syrup, and filled remained with cooled fizzy water. Very nice! Lots of deep raspberry pink and more raspberry flavor than lemon. I'm pleased. I'll use the pulp from my next batch for a shrub. Thanks everyone!

Shrubs are an old fashioned drink made with fruit, vinegar and sugar. I've used the recipe from hardlikearmour -- http://www.food52.com/recipe/shrub (You could use a different vinegar if you can't find the one specified.)

I would mix it into an ice cream or sorbet. Or what about mixing into muffin batters?

Hilarybee -- yes, the pulp includes seeds (right now, my jelly bag is hung to drip with raspberries), and yes this is pure pulp with nothing added (no sugar or anything else). I'm confused about vinegar syrup for "shrubs" -- is the shrub a typo or are you making a compost tea type thing? (when I think shrubs, I think the garden, but maybe you have a different meaning?). RachelS -- I agree that the skimming foam is delicious and has a multitude of uses; I also use it in many of the applications you've suggested.

Maybe once all the juice is extracted from the fruit (especially with berries which will be little more than seeds), the pulp really is best for enriching the compost ...

You know what, I have a bunch of assorted citrus (lemon, lime and orange) sitting on my counter. I think I'll make a citrus-aid, swirl in some raspberry pulp, let sit for awhile and then strain. Sure won't hurt anything, and might even be a pleasant surprise! I'll report back... :)

Does the pulp include seeds? And is this pulp before or after sugar? I assume since this is jelly it is before sugar?
I like RachelS's suggestion to use it as a topper for yogurt etc. But I do wonder if it is berry and if there are tons of seeds that would make this unappealing? I use leftover skins and pulp to make a vinegar syrup for shrubs and vinegar soda. You could mix in some apple cider vinegar and more sugar to make it into a syrup for shrubs. You'd have to discard the skins and seeds, but it would give the pulp a second life.
I always save the peach skins for this purpose; they add a lot of color to the vinegar-syrup and make it super delicious. You probably could make a flavored simple syrup this way too. Try adding herbs or lavender. Hibiscus flowers could be great with raspberry pulp.

I had the same problem with the foam left from skimming it off of jam while cooking, until I read a suggestion from David Tanis to save it and put it on toast. It was delicious! Since then, I've been using the foam on French toast, English muffins, ice cream, mixed into oatmeal, on yogurt, or pretty much anyplace else I feel inclined to add something fruity and sweet. I'm guessing you could do that with the pulp as well, or if all else fails, add it to smoothies!