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Currant Jelly

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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 4 ingredients

  1. Currants
  2. Brandy
  3. Sugar
  4. a pint of juice
Contains Sulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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 some ripe red or black currants, with one-third of white ones, and put them after picking into a preserving pan, over a good fire, to dissolve.
  2. Run the liquor through a flannel bag, and to a pint of juice, if the fruit is red, add fourteen ounces of sifted sugar, but more if black.
  3. Boil the whole quickly, skim it, and reduce it to a proper thickness.
  4. When put into glasses or pots, put over them some paper dipped in brandy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve