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Red Raspberries in Currant Jelly

A jelly made from currant juice, raspberries, and sugar.

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 ↓

Red Raspberries in Currant Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Prepare the currants for jelly and strain out the juice.

  2. Put the juice in a porcelain kettle to cook.

Make the jelly

  1. Heat the sugar in the oven for 20 minutes while the currant juice cooks.

  2. After boiling the currant juice for 10 minutes, add the raspberries.

  3. At the end of 20 minutes, add the heated sugar.

  4. Let the mixture boil once, then pour into bowls and set aside.

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

Currants
Their juice provides the pectin and acidity that help the jelly set.
Wild red raspberries
Add fruit flavour and aroma to the jelly.
Sugar
Sweetens the jelly and helps it set and keep its texture.

The step that matters

Adding the heated sugar. Sugar added to hot fruit juice dissolves quickly and keeps the boil from stalling. Heating the sugar first helps the mixture return to a boil fast, which supports a proper set.

“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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