By Whitney Donohue

Moapa Valley Progress

This is a fun jelly that combines the taste of pomegranate juice and mountain dew soda. This is a great tasting cocktail, but even more surprising and great tasting as a jelly.

I created this recipe because I had just a bit of pomegranate juice left from my pomegranate jelly making, and mountain dew because I wanted to try the mountain dew recipe listed on the site.

Pomegranate Mountain Dew Jelly

1 cup pomegranate juice

3 cups mountain dew soda

1/2 cup lemon juice

4 1/2 cups sugar

1 (2 ounce) box pectin

Combine pomegranate juice, mountain dew, lemon juice, and pectin in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Add sugar and bring back to a rolling boil. Boil for two minutes, remove from heat.

Skim off foam and ladle into hot, sterilized jars, leaving ¼-inch headspace. Wipe jar rims and adjust lids. Process jars in a boiling water canner for seven minutes (start your timer when the water resumes boiling). Remove jars from water, cool on wire racks. Makes approximately eight 4-ounce jars.