Raspberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Combine raspberries and sugar in a pot.
Scald the mixture together.
Set and dry
Pour into tin pans, no more than 2 inches thick.
Cover with gauze or thin material.
Place in the hot sun for a couple of days.
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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Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Raspberries
- Provide the fruit body, flavour and natural pectin that gives the jam its structure.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and draws water out of the fruit, helping it thicken and keep.
The step that matters
Scald the mixture together. Heating the raspberries and sugar together dissolves the sugar and softens the fruit so juice releases and mixes evenly. Under-heating leaves the jam runny and unevenly 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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