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Currant Jelly

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Currants
  2. one pound sugar
  3. Water
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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. Mash and strain the currants ;
  2. to each pint of juice add one pound sugar ;
  3. boil the juice fifteen minutes without sugar, and the same time after it is in ;
  4. strain into glasses.
  5. When pouring hot fruit or jelly into jars or glasses, wring a towel out of cold water, lay it on a table, and set the cold jars upon it, pouring the boiling fruit into them.
  6. Care should be taken not to set two jars on the same spot without first wetting the towel.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve