Currant Juice

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Status
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Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (8)
For the main juice
For another way
Instructions (11)
  1. Take currants, and squeeze the juice out of them.
  2. Have some very dry quart bottles, and hold in each a couple of burning matches.
  3. Cork them up, to keep the smoke confined in them for a few hours, till the juice is put in them.
  4. Fill them to the neck with the currant juice.
  5. Scald them in a copper or pot with hay between.
  6. The water must be cold when the bottles are put in.
  7. Let them have one boil.
Another way
  1. Boil a pint of currant juice with half a pint of clarified sugar.
  2. Skim it.
  3. Add a little lemon to taste.
  4. Mix with a quart of seed.
Original Text
Currant Juice. Take currants, and squeeze the juice out of them; have some very dry quart bottles, and hold in each a couple of burning matches. Cork them up, to keep the smoke confined in them for a few hours, till the juice is put in them. Fill them to the[268] neck with the currant juice; then scald them in a copper or pot with hay between. The water must be cold when the bottles are put in: let them have one boil. Another way. Boil a pint of currant juice with half a pint of clarified sugar; skim it; add a little lemon to taste, and mix with a quart of seed.
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