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Red Pepper Jelly

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United States

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pound of sugar
  2. Red peppers
  3. Water
  4. Must

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 ripe red peppers, place the pods in an earthen jar which must be set in a kettle of cold water and boiled until the juice is entirely extracted.
  2. To every pint of juice allow a pound of sugar, and boil until it ropes well.
  3. Put in small tumblers.
  4. This jelly is very nice for cold meats.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Kettle
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Credit

From The Daily news Cook book (1896), printed page 494, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/dailynewscookboo00chic

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.