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Cranberry 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 6 ingredients

  1. two pounds of sugar
  2. Berries
  3. a gill of water
  4. Must
  5. Cinnamon
  6. Wine
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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. Required : a gill of water and two pounds of sugar to every pound of fruit.
  2. Cost, variable.
  3. The berries must be picked, and not one unsound one left.
  4. Put the water in the pan, and then put in alternate layers of fruit and sugar ;
  5. bring to the boil, and skim with the greatest care.
  6. Test as usual ;
  7. try it in half an hour after it boils ;
  8. it should not be left a minute more than requisite to set.
  9. Cover and store with care.
  10. The precaution of using a brandied or oiled paper is well observed.
  11. In Germany the sugar is first boiled with wine, and the jam is made less sweet than the above, and flavoured with cinnamon or other 'spice.
  12. (See remarks under Compote below.)

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon