Name: Currant Water
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon currant jelly; 1 glass water; Sweetener to taste (optional); 3 tablespoons currant juice (if available)

Currant Water

Ingredients

1 tablespoon currant jelly
1 glass water
Sweetener to taste (optional)
3 tablespoons currant juice (if available)

Directions

Stir the currant jelly into the glass of water.
Sweeten slightly if desired.
If using currant juice, mix it with enough water to achieve the desired acidity.

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 main fruit flavor and sweetness to the drink.
Currant juice: Adds tartness and fruit flavor, adjusting the drink's acidity when used.

“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.