15 jelly recipes

Old-fashioned elderberry grape jelly: foraged elderberries and half-ripe grapes simmered, strained, and boiled with sugar to a sheeting set. No commercial pectin needed thanks to the under-ripe grape skins.

A delicious jelly made of parsley leaves, fruit pectin and lemon juice that tastes great with crackers.

Old-fashioned jelly cookies: buttery shortbread rounds sandwiched with red raspberry jelly and dusted in powdered sugar. The kind that gets softer and better as the jelly soaks in.

Jelly Christmas Eyes are sandwich cookies with a window cutout showing raspberry or strawberry jelly through the center, coated in sugar. A festive holiday cookie plate classic.

Old-fashioned wild plum jelly made with fresh plum juice, dry fruit pectin, and sugar. A traditional grandma-style preserve with a tart-sweet edge that captures wild plums at peak season.

Peanut butter and jelly cheesecake with a crunchy oat-peanut crust, chunky peanut butter filling, and a glossy grape jelly topping. Childhood flavors in a grown-up dessert.

Childhood PB&J turned into a two-layer peanut butter cake filled with more peanut butter and red jelly, topped with fluffy seven-minute frosting. Nostalgic birthday cake for grown-ups.

Peanut butter and jelly muffins with chunky peanut butter baked into buttermilk batter, then topped with melted jelly and chopped peanuts fresh from the oven.

Peanut butter thumbprint cookies filled with cherry preserves. Soft, nutty peanut butter dough with a jewel-toned jelly center in every bite.

Peanut butter and jelly cookies that taste exactly like the sandwich. Make sandwich-style or thumbprint cookies with jam centers. Soft, peanutty, kid-approved.

Peanut butter and jelly French toast sandwiches dipped in egg batter and pan-fried in butter. A kid-friendly breakfast that combines two classics in one.

Halloween peanut butter and jelly bread spiders. Frozen bread dough shaped into spider bodies stuffed with PB and strawberry jam, then baked. Three ingredients, one creepy treat.

Green Pepper Jalapeño Jelly with Red Pepper Flakes recipe

A traditional German stuffed pork belly filled with breadcrumbs, smoked ham, ground meat, and marjoram. Scored, seasoned, and roasted until the rind turns shattering crisp. Served with roasted turnip.

Slow-braised pork belly and kidneys with orange zest, celery, garlic, and rosemary, made a day ahead so the surface fat lifts off cleanly. Old-school British casserole craft.