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Preserved Raspberries

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France

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. White currants
  2. Currants
  3. Must
  4. a pound of loaf-sugar
  5. Raspberries
  6. a pound of fine loaf-sugar
  7. Water
Contains Sulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Raspberry High in vitamin C · High in manganese

    High in vitamin C · 26 mg per 100 g, 33% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    High in manganese · 0.7 mg per 100 g, 34% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Manganese contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Manganese contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    • Manganese contributes to the normal formation of connective tissue.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Manganese contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Manganese is a mineral that your body needs to stay healthy. Your body uses manganese to make energy and protect your cells from damage. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Raspberries, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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. Let your raspberries be gathered on a dry day.
  2. Measure them, and to a quart of raspberries allow a pound of fine loaf-sugar.
  3. Spread the fruit on large dishes, but do not heap it;
  4. let every raspberry lie singly.
  5. Pound the sugar to powder, and sift it over the fruit.
  6. Then have ready the same quantity of ripe currants.
  7. Squeeze them through a linen bag which has been wrung out of cold water.
  8. Prepare a pound of loaf-sugar for each pint of currant juice.
  9. Put the sugar into a preserving-kettle, and pour the currant-juice over it.
  10. When it has melted, set it on the fire, and boil and skim it for ten minutes.
  11. When no more scum rises, put in the raspberries.
  12. As soon as they are all scalded, take off the kettle, cover it, and set it away for two hours.
  13. Then put it again on the fire for about five minutes.
  14. Afterward set it again away for two hours, and then return it to the fire as before.
  15. This must be done three times in all, but on no account allow the raspberries to boil.
  16. If done with care, they will be whole and transparent.
  17. When cold, put them up in glasses.
  18. If you preserve white raspberries, do them in the juice of white currants.
  19. Any other fruit may be done in jelly in the same manner.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve
  • Kettle