Delicious Red Currant Jam

Ingredients

• Red currants (without stalks), 4 lbs.
• fine sugar, 3 lbs.

Method

1. 1

   Gather currants on a dry day, strip from stalks, weigh, and mix with sugar in a preserving pan.

2. 2

   Stir over a brisk fire and boil quickly for exactly eight minutes from the first full boil.

3. 3

   Avoid overfilling the pan to prevent boiling over.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 9 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 444. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DELICIOUS RED CURRANT JAM. This, which is but an indifferent preserve when made in the usual w&y, will be found a very fine one if the following directions for it be 510 MODERN COOKERY. [chap. X3tlV. observed ; it will be extremely transparent and bright in colour, and will retain perfectly the flavour of the fruit. Take the currants at the height of their season, the finest that can be had, free from dust, but gathered on a dry day; strip them with great care from the stalks, weigh and put them into a preserving-pan with three pounds of the best sugar reduced to powder, to four pounds of the fruit : stir them gently over a brisk clear fire, and boil them quickly for exactly eight minutes from the first full boil. As the jam is apt to rise over the top of the pan, it is better not to fill it more than two-thirds, and if this precaution should not be sufficient to prevent it, it must be lifted from the fire and held away for an instant. To many tastes, a still finer jam than this (which we find sufficiently sweet) may be made with an equal weight of fruit and sugar boiled together for seven minutes. There should be great exactness with respect to the time, as both the flavour and the brilliant colour of the preserve will De injured by longer boiling. Red currants (without stalks), 4 lbs. ; fine sugar, 3 lbs.

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