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Raspberries and Currants

A jam made from currant juice, raspberries, and sugar, cooked and stored in jelly glasses.

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 ↓

Raspberries and Currants

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jam

  1. Cook the currants in water until tender.

  2. Strain the currants, then add the raspberries and sugar to the juice.

  3. Cook for 20 minutes.

Store

  1. Store in jelly glasses with lids.

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

Raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and bulk of the jam.
Sugar
Sweetens the jam and helps it thicken and keep well when cooked.
Currant juice
Adds natural pectin and acidity that help the jam set.

The step that matters

Cooking the jam after adding the sugar. Sugar and fruit must simmer long enough for the mixture to reach a gel point. Undercooking leaves runny jam, while overcooking can darken and dull the fruit flavour.

“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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