Currant Jelly

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 5 lbs currants
• sugar
• 1/2 cup water

Recipe

• 1 wash and pick over currants.
• 2 heat in a large kettle with water until thoroughly heated through; mash with a potato masher and turn into a jelly bag to drip into container.
• 3 measure resulting juice and add one pound of sugar to every pint of juice.
• 4 boil about 20 minutes or until jelly reaches 220f on a candy thermometer (at sea level; reduce by two degrees for every 1000 feet in elevation).
• 5 skim, pour into hot sterilized jelly glasses and seal in a boiling water bath for ten minutes.