currant jellyn.
A preserve made of the strained juice of boiled currants heated and mixed with sugar in a preserving-pan. Also figurative. Also attributive, as currant-jelly dog, a harrier.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > jelly
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currant jelly1747
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > harrier
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currant-jelly dog1851
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1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvi. 145 To make Curran Jelly. Strip the Currants from the Stalks, put them in a Stone Jar [etc.].
1762 W. Gelleroy London Cook 303 To make Currant Jelly.
1831 Athenæum 31 Dec. 852/1 Swallowing the bitter powder of instruction by enclosing it in the currant jelly of amusement.
1851 Illustr. London News 11 Jan. 27/3 Those agents of woodcraft, called, in flippant parlance, ‘currant-jelly dogs’.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. v. 56 Fired with a housewifely wish to see her store-room stocked with home-made preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.
1923 H. Cox Dogs & I xvii. 145 Those which are contemptuously termed ‘Red Currant Jelly Dogs’..are composed either of Beagle Harriers or..dwarf Foxhounds.]
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