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Currant-juice

Currant Juice is a preserved drink made by extracting juice from currants and bottling it.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Currant-juice

Ingredients

Directions

Extract and strain

  1. Place currants in a preserving pan over heat to extract juice.

  2. Strain the juice through a jelly bag.

Bottle and seal

  1. Pour the juice into perfectly dry quart bottles.

  2. Cork and seal the bottles.

  3. Simmer the bottles for 30 minutes.

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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What each ingredient does

Currants
Supply the juice, the main flavor, and the tartness of the drink.

“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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