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Spiced Currants

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United States

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

  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. 1 teaspoon cloves
  2. 1 pint good cider vinegar
  3. 4 pounds sugar
  4. 7 pounds currants
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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. 7 pounds currants, 1 tablespoon ground cin- 4 pounds sugar, namon, 1 pint good cider vinegar.
  2. 1 teaspoon cloves.
  3. Put into kettle and boil until the fruit is soft, then ykim out, putting it on dishes until the syrup is boiled down thick.
  4. Ttirn the fniit back into the syrup again so as to heat it all through;
  5. then seal it hot in glass jars and put in a cool, dark place.
  6. —Mrs.
  7. Marie Pick.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Kettle