Currant Jelly

Ingredients

• the very reddest red currants
• half the amount of white ones
• a quarter of the quantity in raspberries

Method

1. 1

   Press currants through a sieve, then put the pulp with a little water in a pan to swell.

2. 2

   Strain, weigh the juice, add equal weight of sugar, let stand for two hours, then boil and skim for twenty minutes until clear.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CURRANT JELLY December 28. — As I have said, we get blackberries the end of December, and shall be glad to know how to make blackberry puddings and jelly. Blackberry Pudding (Mrs. Smith’s). — Line a dish with slices of bread-and-butter, and put a layer of blackberries with lots of sugar, another layer of slices of bread-and- butter, and so on till the dish is full ; bake it for an hour, and serve with custard. Mulberries done in this way are very good also. Blackberry or mulberry fool is delicious made like gooseberry fool with cream. Blackberries. — The ancients are said to have believed that both the fruit and flower of the blackberry were preventives against the bites of serpents ! — and in North- amptonshire I am told the young shoots of the bramble eaten as salad are supposed to be of use to fasten loosened teeth ; perhaps some one would like to try ! Blackberry Jelly (Miss Adeane’s). — Take the fruit before quite ripe, put it in a pot and tie up close and place it in a kettle of water. Leave the fruit so till it is reduced to a pulp, then strain, and to a pint of juice put i lb. powdered sugar. Boil to a jelly and put up for use. Blackberry jelly makes excellent sandwiches for tea. Currant Jelly. — A similar way of doing currants is from a French recipe ; but a variety is given to the usual red currant jelly by adding to whatever quantity you take of the very reddest red currants half the amount of white ones and a quarter of the quantity in raspberries

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.