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To Keep Currants

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Keep Currants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Ensure bottles are perfectly clean and dry.

  2. Cut currants from the large stalks, leaving a small bit of stalk on each.

  3. Gather currants on a dry day, preferably under the trees, allowing them to drop gently into the bottles.

  4. Stop the bottles with cork and rosin.

  5. Bury the bottles in the garden trench with the neck downwards.

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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