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Black Currant 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. 6 pints water
  2. 1 lb. sugar
  3. 7 lbs. fruit

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. Put fruit in preserving pan, having first removed stalks only, and washed.
  2. Cover fruit with cold water — 6 pints water to 7 lbs.
  3. fruit.
  4. When fruit is soft (about \ an hour), draw pan to side of fire.
  5. Put in sugar — 1 lb.
  6. sugar to every 1 lb.
  7. fruit — and boil the whole for not more than \ of an hour or 20 minutes.
  8. Miss Cowan, Elmbank, Edinburgh.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan