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Currant Wine

A drink made by dissolving currant jelly in cold filtered water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Currant Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the currant jelly in the cold filtered water. Stir well until fully combined.

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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What each ingredient does

Currant jelly
Provides the fruit flavour and sweetness that give the drink its character.

“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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