CURRANT JELLY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 9, Issue 349, 16 January 1918, Page 7

CURRANT JELLY.

Pick over the currants and wash them, but do not remove the stems. Put them on to cook in a preserving pan, mashing a few at first. Let them coot .<UoT,vly, until they look white. Remove them from the fire, put through a coarse strainer or colander, and pour into a jelly bag of muslin or cheesecloth, 6iiepended over a clean, large bowl. Let it stand until the juice has dripped through—if you wish a clear jelly do not squeeze it. Measure the juice into a fresh kettle, and pub over the fire again. Let it boil a few—three or four—minutes longer, und pour into jelly glasses. Let these stand in the,sunshine for a day or two; then cover. CURRANT AND RASPBERRY JAM. Cook together equal parts of well washed, ripe red raspberries and washed and stemmed red curranits. Add threequarter cup of sugar—heated in the oven —to every cup of the fruit. Cook until thick, then pour into glasses; let stand for a day, then vjover. CURRANT AND RASPBERRY JELLY. This is made just as currant jelly, except that currants and raspberries are used i,n equal parts.

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