Skip to main content
Drink

Black Currant Drink

A chilled drink made by dissolving black currant jam in boiling water and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Black Currant Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the boiling water over the black currant jam.

  2. Stir well until the jam is fully dissolved.

  3. Let the mixture stand until it cools.

  4. Strain the drink to remove any solids.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Black currant jam
Provides the main sweetness, fruit flavour and colour of the drink.

“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.

You might also like

Vegetable SoupVegetable Soup350 recipesRaspberry VinegarRaspberry Vinegar214 recipesBrown Coffee with EggBrown Coffee with Egg175 recipesBlackberry CordialBlackberry Cordial129 recipes