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Barberry Jam

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one pint of water
  2. Refined sugar
  3. Sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. ( First and best Receipt.') The barberries for this preserve should be quite ripe, though they should not be allowed to hang until they begin to decay.
  2. Strip them from the stalks, throw aside such as are spotted, and for each pound of the fruit allow eighteen ounces of well-refined sugar ;
  3. boil this, with one pint of water to every four pounds, until it becomes white, and falls in thick masses from the spoon ;
  4. then throw in the fruit, ' and keep it stirred over a brisk fire for six minutes only ;
  5. take off the scum, and pour it into jars or glasses.
  6. Sugar, 41 lbs.
  7. ;
  8. water, 11 pint : boiled to candy height.
  9. Barberries, 4 lbs.
  10. : 6 minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon