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Good Red Ob White Raspberry Jam

A jam made from raspberries, currant juice, and sugar boiled and stirred until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Good Red Ob White Raspberry Jam

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the raspberries and currant juice in a large pot for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove the pot from heat and stir in the sugar until dissolved.

  3. Return the pot to the heat and boil for an additional 10 minutes.

  4. Skim off any foam.

  5. Stir the mixture continuously.

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. Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavor, color and bulk of the jam.
Currant juice
Adds natural pectin and acidity that help the jam set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, with boiling, helps the jam thicken and set.

The step that matters

Boiling after the sugar is added. Once the sugar dissolves, the jam must boil long enough to reach a concentration where pectin and acid form a gel. Too little boiling leaves it runny, while too much can make it stiff, dull or scorched on the bottom of the pot.

“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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