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Blackberry Jelly

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one pound of sugar
  2. Water
  3. Berries

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 the berries in a jar and cover it ;
  2. set it in a pan of water over the fire, and simmer about an hour that the juice may run slowly;
  3. pour through a jelly bag, putting a little at a time into the bag.
  4. Then measure the juice, and allow one pound of sugar to each pint.
  5. Boil the juice fast in a brass or enamelled saucepan for twenty minutes, then add the sugar, and stir till it is all dissolved.
  6. Skim, and simmer for about ten minutes.
  7. Pour into jars, which should previously be made quite hot.
  8. When quite firm, cover, and store in a dry cool place.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon