Current Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Strain the juice.
Combine the juice with half of the sugar in a pot and boil for about 15 minutes.
Heat the remaining sugar separately until just boiling, then add it to the pot.
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
- Juice
- Provides the liquid, plus the acid and natural pectin that help the jelly set.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jelly and, with heat, helps it thicken and set firmly.
The step that matters
Adding the hot sugar to the boiling juice. Sugar added cold would drop the mixture's temperature and pause the boil. Heating the extra sugar separately keeps the pot at a rolling boil so the mixture can reach the concentration needed to set.
“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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