Currant Paste

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (10)
  1. Strip your currants.
  2. Put a little juice to them to keep them from burning.
  3. Boil them well.
  4. Rub them through a hair sieve.
  5. Boil it a quarter of an hour.
  6. To a pint of juice put a pound and a half of double-refined sugar pounded and sifted.
  7. Shake in your sugar.
  8. When it is melted, pour it on plates.
  9. Dry it in the same manner as the raspberry paste.
  10. Turn it into any form you like best.
Original Text
Currant Paste. CURRANT paste may be either red or white, ac-cording to the colour of the currants you use. Strip your currants, put a little juice to them to keep them from burning, boil them well, and rub them through a hair sieve. Then boil it a quarter of an hour, and to a pint of juice put a pound and a half of double-refined sugar pounded and sifted. Shake in your sugar, and when it is melted, pour it on plates. Dry it in the same manner as the raspberry paste, and turn it into any form you like best.
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