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Canned Currants

A preserved fruit made by simmering white currants with sugar and canning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: White currant and sugar work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. The science ↓

Canned Currants

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and heat

  1. Carefully stem and weigh the currants.

  2. In a kettle, heat the currants slowly for 20-30 minutes.

Sweeten and can

  1. Add the sugar and shake the kettle occasionally to mix.

  2. Do not allow the mixture to boil; keep it just below boiling until the sugar dissolves.

  3. Pour the mixture into cans and secure the covers immediately.

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. White currant + sugartop 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

White currants
Supply the fruit, natural acidity and pectin that give the preserve its flavour and body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the currants while thickening the mixture as it dissolves.

The step that matters

Keep the mixture just below boiling. Once the sugar is added, boiling can scorch the fruit and overcook it, changing its flavour and texture. Gentle heat lets the sugar dissolve evenly and keeps the currants whole.

“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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