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Currant Cakes

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. two quarts of currants
  2. a pint of water
  3. a quart of juice
  4. three pounds of sugar
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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. Take two quarts of currants, red or white, pick and wash them, boil them in a pint of water ;
  2. then run the juice through a jellybag, taking care not to press the bag;
  3. boil up the juice, strewing in three pounds of sugar to a quart of juice : pour it into glasses, dry it in a stone till it will turn out, then dry the cakes on plates.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan