Currant Jelly

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 150 min Total: 150 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (4)
currants
liquid
sweetener
preservation
Instructions (8)
  1. When currants are ripe and dry, pick them off the stalks, and put them in a large stew-pot.
  2. To every ten quarts of currants put a quart of water, tie a paper over them, and let them in a cool oven for two hours.
  3. Then squeeze them through a very thin cloth.
  4. To every quart of juice add a pound and a half of loaf sugar broken in small pieces.
  5. Stir it gently till the sugar is melted.
  6. When it boils skim it well, let it boil pretty quick for half an hour over a clear fire.
  7. Then pour it into pots.
  8. Put brandy papers over them, and keep them for use.
Original Text
GET your currants when they are ripe and dry, pick them off the stalks, and put them in a large stew-pot; to every ten quarts of currants put a quart of water, tie a paper over them, and let them in a cool oven for two hours, then squeeze them through a very thin cloth; to every quart of juice add a pound and a half of loaf sugar broken in small pieces, stir it gently till the sugar is melted; when it boils skim it well, let it boil pretty quick for half an hour over a clear fire, then pour it into pots; put brandy papers over them, and keep them for use.
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