Cranberry Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Pick over the cranberries carefully.
Combine the cranberries and water in a pot and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally until soft enough to mash.
Strain the mixture to extract the juice.
Make the jelly
For every pint of juice, add 1 lb of sugar and finish like other jellies.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cranberries
- Provide the main flavor, tartness, and natural pectin that helps the jelly set.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and, with the fruit's pectin and acid, helps the juice gel.
The step that matters
Adding the sugar to the juice. The sugar must be measured against the juice, because sugar, pectin, and acid together form the gel. Too little sugar can leave the jelly loose and runny.
“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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