To preserve Red Currants in Bunches

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (8)
for preserving red currants
Instructions (11)
  1. Stone the currants.
  2. Tie six or seven bunches together with a thread to a piece of split deal about the length of your finger.
  3. Weigh the currants.
  4. Put their weight of double refined sugar in your preserving pan with a little water.
  5. Boil the sugar and water until the sugar flies.
  6. Put the currants in and just give them a boil up.
  7. Cover them until the next day.
  8. Take them out.
  9. Either dry them or put them in glasses with the syrup boiled up with a little of the juice of red currants.
  10. Put brandy paper over them and tie them close down with another paper.
  11. Set them in a dry place.
Original Text
To preserve Red Currants in Bunches. STONE your currants, and tie six or seven bunches together with a thread to a piece of split deal about the length of your finger, weigh the currants, and put their weight of double refined sugar in your preserving pan, with a little water, and boil it till the sugar flies, then put the cur- rants in, and just give them a boil up, and cover them till next day, then take them out, and either dry them or put them in glasses, with the syrup boiled up with a little of the juice of red currants; put brandy paper over them, and tie them close down with another paper, and set them in a dry place.
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