Name: To Make Fruit Jelly
Ingredients: Fruit (enough to yield 1 pint of juice); 1 pound granulated sugar

To Make Fruit Jelly

Ingredients

Fruit (enough to yield 1 pint of juice)
1 pound granulated sugar

Directions

Boil the fruit in enough water to cover it.
Once the fruit is soft, strain it through a jelly bag.
For every pint of juice, add 1 pound of granulated sugar.

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

Fruit: Provides the juice and natural pectin and flavor that set the jelly.
Granulated sugar: Sweetens the jelly and, with the juice's pectin and acid, helps it set firm.

“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.