Raspberry and Currant Jam Combined
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- equal raspberries
- equal currants
- 1 pint juice from combined berries and currants
- 0.5 pint sugar
- brandy
Instructions
- Take an equal quantity of raspberries and currants and squeeze the juice from them.
- Measure the juice and put one pint of it to one-half pint of sugar.
- Put on to boil, letting it boil till thick as honey.
- Add the berries and currants that you squeezed the juice from.
- Let all boil together till thick as mush, when it will be cooked.
- Put up in bowls, jars or glasses, covering inside with paper wet in brandy.
- Put away in a dark place.