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Currant-jelly Sauce

A sauce made by adding currant jelly to brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and sauce work together. They rank in the top 35% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 628 recipes. The science ↓

Currant-jelly Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare brown sauce.

  2. Add 4 tablespoons of currant jelly to the brown sauce.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil once.

  4. Serve with game.

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. Currant + saucetop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together628 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and a fruity tartness, and thickens the sauce as it melts into it.
Brown sauce
Forms the savory base that the jelly is stirred into.

“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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