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Raspberry Cakes

A simple raspberry preserve made by boiling, mashing, straining, and sweetening with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Raspberry Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick out any bad raspberries.

  2. Weigh the good raspberries and boil them.

Make the jam

  1. Mash the raspberries and strain the liquid.

  2. Add sugar equal to the weight of the raspberries to the pan and mix well.

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

Raspberries
Provide the fruit, pectin, acidity and flavour that form the jam's base.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the jam thicken and preserve its texture.

“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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