Name: Black Currant Drink
Ingredients: 1 jar (1 lb) black currant jelly; 1 pint hot water

Black Currant Drink

Ingredients

1 jar (1 lb) black currant jelly
1 pint hot water

Directions

Add the black currant jelly to the hot water and stir until dissolved.
Serve hot and sip at intervals.

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 currant jelly: Provides the sweetness and fruit flavour that make up the drink.
Hot water: Melts the jelly so it disperses evenly into a drinkable liquid.

“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.