Recipe: Tasty Redcurrent jelly

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Redcurrent jelly. A simple small-batch recipe for a beautiful and tasty red currant jelly. No commercial pectin is needed for this recipe. How to make red currant jelly with fresh berries.

Redcurrent jelly A classic red currant jelly made from fresh currants. This came from my one of my mother's handwritten recipe cards. I do not know its origin, but know it probably dates. You can have Redcurrent jelly using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Redcurrent jelly

  1. It's of Equal weight of redcurrants and sugar.
  2. You need of Empty glass jam jars or equivalent, washed, dried and warmed in a low heat oven(120 degrees C) for 5 minutes.
  3. Prepare of Fine sieve, or a sieve and clean gauze to sieve.

We had a good crop of redcurrants so used them to make redcurrant jelly. In this video I show you how to make this preserve. In this video I will be showing you an easy way to separate the Red currants from the stalks and we will make a Jelly. Red Currant Jelly is a classic jelly that we prepare from scratch every year during the months of June and July in Europe.

Redcurrent jelly instructions

  1. Wash the redcurrants, stalks and all and place in a saucepan.
  2. Heat on a low heat so that the fruit starts to break down - about 5 minutes.
  3. Add the sugar on top of the fruit and stir until sugar is dissolved..
  4. Bring the mixture to the boil and boil for approx. 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Take care - the mixture will be very hot..
  5. Place a fine sieve over a bowl. If you don't have a fine sieve then place some gauze in the sieve beforehand..
  6. Carefully pour the redcurrants mixture into the sieve and let the jelly drip through. I used a fine sieve and a wooden spoon to squeeze the jelly out a little faster, and before it started to set..
  7. Carefully pour into clean, warm jam jars and seal - you can used lids, waxed paper or waxed cloth that can be tied down..
  8. Cool and store in a cool place.

This red currant jelly recipe is without pectin and. Red currant jelly is so expensive in stores, that it's no wonder it's such a rare treat. If you can get access to a bush, you will be able to create a rare treasure for your pantry. This red currant jelly recipe starts with a pint of current juice (or more) and sugar. I sometimes add a small amount of almond extract to switch.