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Strawberry and Currant Jelly

A fruit jelly made from strawberries, currants, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Strawberry and Currant Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and prepare the strawberries and currants.

  2. Combine the fruits in a large pot.

Cook and jar

  1. Add sugar to taste.

  2. Boil the mixture for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  3. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

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 + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and most of the bulk of the jelly.
Currants
Add tart flavor and natural pectin that helps the jelly set.
Sugar
Helps the jelly set, adds sweetness, and helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture for 15 minutes. The sugar and fruit pectin must reach the setting point to form a gel. Boiling too briefly leaves the jelly runny, while boiling 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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