Black Currant Jam

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time: Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (2)

jam

black currants when they are full ripe, pick them clear from the stalks ↝ Currants, european black, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
to every two pounds of currants put a pound and a half of loaf sugar beat fine ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]

Instructions (4)

Get your black currants when they are full ripe, pick them clear from the stalks, and bruise them in a bowl with a wooden mallet.
To every two pounds of currants put a pound and a half of loaf sugar beat fine.
Put them into a preserving-pan, boil them full half an hour, skim it and stir it all the time.
Then put it in pots, and keep it for use.

Original Text

To make Black Currant Jam.
GET your black currants when they are full
ripe, pick them clear from the stalks, and bruise
them in a bowl with a wooden mallet, to every
two pounds of currants put a pound and a half
of loaf sugar beat fine, put them into a preserv-
ing-pan, boil them full half an hour, skim it
and stir it all the time, then put it in pots,
and keep it for use.

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