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The Middlebury Register
Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont
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Suggests using rhubarb (pie plant) as an economical substitute for currant juice when making pies or jam from overly sweet fruits like raspberries, to add acidity and flavor while preserving aroma.
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In putting up, or making pies of very sweet fruits, as raspberries, mulberries or huckleberries, some acid fruit or juice is requisite to mingle with their wild sweetness, and impart zest and flavor. The famous old-fashioned raspberry jam, perhaps the most exquisite in fragrance and piquancy of all fruit preparations, is made of the large, odorous Antwerp raspberries, picked when just ripe, not over-ripe, mixed with currant juice, and prepared and sealed up immediately after packing, and with as little stewing as possible, in order that their fugacious aroma may be retained and sealed up with them.
In the lack of currants for this purpose rhubarb proves a very good substitute, not so tasteful looking, it may be thought, but quite agreeable to the palate. And it has the merit of economy, for rhubarb is so common and so very easily grown.—W.
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In putting up, or making pies of very sweet fruits, as raspberries, mulberries or huckleberries, some acid fruit or juice is requisite to mingle with their wild sweetness, and impart zest and flavor. The famous old-fashioned raspberry jam is made of the large, odorous Antwerp raspberries, picked when just ripe, not over-ripe, mixed with currant juice, and prepared and sealed up immediately after packing, and with as little stewing as possible, in order that their fugacious aroma may be retained and sealed up with them. In the lack of currants for this purpose rhubarb proves a very good substitute, not so tasteful looking, it may be thought, but quite agreeable to the palate. And it has the merit of economy, for rhubarb is so common and so very easily grown.