Name: Currant Jelly
Ingredients: nutmeg

Currant Jelly

Ingredients

nutmeg

Directions

Pick the leaves and spoiled fruit from the currants ; do not stem, and only wash the bunches that are sandy. Put in a stone jar, set that in a preserving kettle and proceed according to gen- eral instructions. Test the jelly in 5 minutes or less.
CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 271
Currant shrub may I)c made from the mashed currants in the bag, after the juice lias quit dripping. Turn them into a stone jar, cover with cold water and let stand over night. Squeeze through a jelly bag, sweeten to taste, grate a little nutmeg over "it, and put on the ice till cjuite cold.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.