Cranberry Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over and wash the cranberries.
Cook and strain
Put cranberries in a saucepan with boiling water and boil for 20 minutes.
Rub the mixture through a sieve.
Sweeten and set
Add sugar and cook for 5 minutes.
Turn into a mold or glasses.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cranberries
- Provide the tart fruit flavour and the pectin that helps the jelly set.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and body, and helps the jelly hold its shape as it cools.
The step that matters
Rubbing the mixture through a sieve. Pushing the cooked cranberries through a sieve removes skins and seeds, giving a smooth, clear-textured jelly rather than a grainy one.
“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.
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