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 ↓
Another Receipt for White Currant Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Strip the fruit from the stalks and place it in a pan.
Boil the fruit, then quickly strain it through a sieve.
Make the jelly
For each pint of juice, add 1 pound of sugar.
Boil the mixture for 20 minutes.
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.
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White currant + sugartop 29% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together59 recipes
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What each ingredient does
- White currants
- Supply juice rich in natural pectin and acidity, which help the jelly set.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jelly and, with pectin and acid, helps it set and keeps it preserved.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture for 20 minutes. Boiling juice with sugar is the step most likely to go wrong. Enough boiling concentrates sugar and pectin so the jelly sets as it cools; too little leaves it runny, too much can make it stiff and dull in flavour.
“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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