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Blackcurrant Syrup

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New Zealand

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. 1 tablespoon of syrup
  3. Water

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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. 2 Ib.
  2. blackcurrants 1 oz.
  3. citric acid | 13 lb.
  4. sugar 14 large cups water Dissolve acid in water and pour over bruised fruit.
  5. Stand 24 hours.
  6. Strain and add sugar.
  7. Stir on the hotplate till sugar is dissolved.
  8. Do not boil.
  9. Bottle.
  10. Use 1 tablespoon of syrup to each glass of water, hot or cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Atlas cookery book (1949), printed page 72, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/atlas-cookery-book-1949

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.