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currant jelly
[currant 4.]
A preserve made of the strained juice of boiled currants heated and mixed with sugar in a preserving-pan. Also fig. Also attrib., as currant-jelly dog, a harrier.
1747H. Glasse Cookery 145 To make Curran Jelly. Strip the Currants from the Stalks, put them in a Stone Jar [etc.]. 1762W. Gelleroy Lond. Cook 303 To make Currant Jelly. 1831Athenæum 31 Dec. 852/1 Swallowing the bitter powder of instruction by enclosing it in the currant jelly of amusement. 1851Illustr. Lond. News 11 Jan. 27/3 Those agents of woodcraft, called, in flippant parlance, ‘currant-jelly dogs’. 1869L. M. Alcott Good Wives (1871) v. 47 Fired with a housewifely wish to see her store-room stocked with home-made preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. [1923H. Cox Dogs & I xvii. 145 Those which are contemptuously termed ‘Red Currant Jelly Dogs’..are composed either of Beagle Harriers or..dwarf Foxhounds.] |