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THINGS MOTHER USED TO MAKE
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Currant Jelly

Pick currants from the stems and wash clean. Put them into a kettle with a very little water and cook for ten minutes. Strain through a flannel bag. Use one pint of juice to one pint of sugar. Boil the juice fifteen minutes, add sugar and boil five minutes. Pour into tumblers or jelly moulds, and when cold cover with paraffine.

Spiced Currants

5 Pounds of Currants 4 Teaspoonfuls of Cinna-
4 Pounds of Sugar mon
1 Pint of Vinegar 4 Teaspoonfuls of Cloves

Boil slowly two and a half hours. Tie the spices in a cloth before boiling.

Cranberry Jelly

1 Quart of Cranberries 3½ Cupfuls of Sugar

Put one quart of cranberries on the stove, with cold water enough to cover. Boil until tender. Strain through a colander. To this four cupfuls of juice add three and a half cupfuls of sugar. Boil twenty minutes and turn into a mould which has been wet with cold water.