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To Make White Raspberry Jam

Jam made from raspberries, loaf sugar, and white currant juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and white currant work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. The science ↓

To Make White Raspberry Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Crush the raspberries finely.

  2. Add the same weight of loaf sugar and half the weight of white currant juice.

Cook and store

  1. Boil over a clear, slow fire for 30 minutes.

  2. Skim well and pour into pots or glasses.

  3. Seal with brandy paper and store dry.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + white curranttop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together59 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and the body of the jam.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the jam and helps it set as it reduces.
White currant juice
Adds acidity and natural pectin to help the jam set.

The step that matters

Boiling over a clear, slow fire for 30 minutes. Sugar and fruit must reduce until the mixture reaches a set point. Too little boiling leaves the jam runny, while overheating can scorch the sugar and dull the bright raspberry flavour.

“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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