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White Currant Jelly

A jelly made from white currants and clarified sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: White currant and sugar work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. The science ↓

White Currant Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the seeds from the white currants.

Make the jelly

  1. Boil the sugar until it reaches a 'grande lisse' consistency.

  2. Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir the jelly lightly with a skimmer.

  3. Boil the jelly twice, then strain it through a sieve.

  4. Return the jelly to the heat, keeping the sides of the pan clean with a sponge.

Finish

  1. Skim off any foam and finish the jelly as you would with red jelly.

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 flavor team

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

White currants
Provide the juice that sets into jelly, along with tartness and fruit flavour.
Clarified sugar
Sweetens the jelly and helps it set firm as the syrup thickens.

The step that matters

Boiling the sugar to grande lisse. The sugar must reach the grande lisse stage so the mixture sets properly as it cools. Sugar cooked too little stays runny, and cooked too far it becomes hard and grainy.

“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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