Cranberry Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and cook
Pick over and wash the cranberries.
Place them in a saucepan with boiling water and boil for 20 minutes.
Rub the mixture through a sieve.
Add sugar and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
Set
Pour into a mold or glasses to set.
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
- Cranberries
- Provide the tart fruit base and flavor that the jelly is built from.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the tart fruit and helps the mixture thicken and set as it cooks.
The step that matters
Cooking after adding the sugar. The jelly sets as the sugar and fruit concentrate to a gel point. Cooking too briefly leaves it runny, while cooking too long can make it stiff and dull in flavor.
“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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