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And Gooseberries

A preserve made by cooking gooseberries with water, then sealing in stone jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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And Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the berries

  1. Put the berries into a kettle.

  2. Add 2 gallons of water for every 100 pounds of berries.

  3. Cook the berries for 15 minutes, stirring lightly.

Jar and seal

  1. Fill the stone jars level full with the cooked berries.

  2. Put on the cap and seal the jars.

  3. Boil the jar cap and rubber rings in water for added safety.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Berries
The fruit that becomes the preserve, with natural pectin that helps it thicken and set.

The step that matters

Filling the jars level full. Filling to the top with hot fruit pushes out trapped air. As the jar cools, this helps create a vacuum seal and limits spoilage from air left in the jar.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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