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 ↓
Another Receipt for White Currant Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Strip the fruit from the stalks and place it in a pan.
Bring the currants to a boil.
Quickly run the mixture through a sieve.
Make the jelly
Add 1 pound of sugar for each pint of juice.
Boil for 20 minutes.
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.
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White currant + sugartop 29% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together59 recipes
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What each ingredient does
- White currants
- Provide natural pectin and acidity, which help the jelly set and give it a bright flavour.
- Double-refined sugar
- Sweetens the jelly and helps it set by binding water and concentrating the pectin.
The step that matters
Boil for 20 minutes after adding the sugar. Boiling dissolves the sugar and concentrates the juice so the pectin and acid can form a gel. Boiling too briefly leaves the jelly runny, while boiling too long can darken the flavour and make it stiff.
“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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