Cranberry Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over and wash the cranberries.
Make the jelly
Add water and cook until very soft.
Press the mixture through a sieve.
Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
Cook without stirring until it will jell, about 5 minutes.
Pour into moistened molds and set aside to cool.
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 tart fruit flavor and the pectin that lets the mixture set into a jelly.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness, balances the tartness, and helps the jelly set firm.
- Water
- Softens the cranberries so they can be cooked down and pressed through a sieve.
The step that matters
Cook without stirring until it will jell. Cranberries contain natural pectin, and sugar must be fully dissolved before this stage. Stirring can disrupt the forming gel, so the mixture should be left to reach the point where it sets as it cools.
“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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