Currant Paste
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 3 ingredients
Contains
Sulphites
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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
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- Put any quantity of ripe currants, either red or white, or a part of each mixed, into a hair sieve ;
- press out the juice, and put three parts of it aside for making jelly.
- Rub the fruit, with the remainder of the juice, through the sieve, and boil it, stirring it constantly, till it is dry.
- Add half a pound of sugar for each pound of the original weight of fruit, and boil twenty minutes longer.
- Be careful not to let the paste burn.
- Put it into jars, and store for use.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Wooden spoon
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Sieve