Name: Currant Shrub
Ingredients: 2 spoonfuls in a tumbler of water affords a refreshing beverage

Currant Shrub

A sweet syrup made from currant juice and sugar, cooled and bottled, served diluted in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients

Currant Shrub

Ingredients

2 spoonfuls in a tumbler of water affords a refreshing beverage

Directions

To 1 pint currant juice add 1 pound loaf sugar.
Boil for five minutes, stirring constantly while cooking.
When cold, bottle it.
Serve 2 spoonfuls in a tumbler of water as a refreshing beverage.

By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church. 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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Currant juice (in the method): Provides the tart fruit base and main flavour of the shrub.
Loaf sugar (in the method): Sweetens the juice and helps preserve the mixture once boiled and bottled.

“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.