Name: Black Raspberries and Currant Jelly
Ingredients: black raspberries; currants

Black Raspberries and Currant Jelly

Ingredients

black raspberries
currants

Directions

Combine black raspberries and currants in equal parts, using slightly more berries if desired.
Cook the mixture as you would for blackberry jelly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Black raspberries: Provides the main flavor and aroma and most of the fruit body of the jelly.
Currants: Adds tartness and natural pectin, helping the jelly set.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.