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Plum or Damson Jelly

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. 2 cups of water
  2. Six pounds of fruit
  3. 1 pound of sugar

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. Six pounds of fruit, stick with a fork.
  2. Put in the kettle 2 cups of water, pour in the fruit, and simmer until soft, drain through a colander, then strain the juice through a cloth;
  3. to each pint of juice allow 1 pound of sugar;
  4. boil about 15 or 20 minutes, and put in glasses.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
  • Colander
  • Kettle
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Credit

From The church cook book (1908), printed page 161, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/churchcookbook00balt

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.