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To Preserve Currants in Bunches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Currants in Bunches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select the finest sprigs of ripe currants.

  2. Open each currant with a needle.

  3. Tie them in bunches of your desired size.

  4. Place the bunches in a preserving pan.

  5. Boil until it bubbles.

  6. Add enough clarified sugar to cover the currants.

  7. Gently boil the mixture and let it stand overnight.

  8. Drain the currants from the syrup.

  9. Put the currants into jars.

  10. Boil the syrup until it bubbles again.

  11. Pour the syrup over the currants in the jars.

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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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. White currant + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together59 recipes

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