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Raspberry Jam

A preserve made by boiling raspberries with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Raspberry Jam

Raspberry Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick and weigh the raspberries.

  2. Place the raspberries in a preserving pan and heat them until hot.

  3. Weigh the castor sugar and place it in a large dish in the oven until hot.

Make and jar the jam

  1. Add the hot sugar to the raspberries and allow to come to a slow boil.

  2. Turn the mixture into jars and cover.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the fruit flavour and the bulk of the jam.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the jam and helps it set and keep once cooled.

“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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