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Barberry Jelly

A historical recipe from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa.

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A historical recipe

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa. Project Gutenberg eBook #6745.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. one pound of 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. The barberries need not be stripped from the stems.
  2. Put the fruit in a kettle with water enough to come just to the top of the fruit, and boil until thoroughly cooked.
  3. Put in a strainer cloth and get out all the juice.
  4. To each pint of it allow one pound of sugar.
  5. Boil the juice hard for fifteen minutes.
  6. Add the sugar, and boil rapidly five or ten minutes, or until it is thick.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
  • Kettle
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6745 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6745). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.