To Bottle Green Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Pack and fill
Pick green gooseberries and pack them tightly in bottles without bruising.
Fill the bottles with syrup up to the necks.
Seal and process
Cork the bottles and secure them with string.
Boil the bottles gently for 10 minutes after the water reaches a boil.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Green gooseberries
- Make up the fruit itself; firm unripe fruit holds its shape through gentle heating.
- Syrup
- Sweetens the fruit and surrounds it, helping preserve it and keep it moist.
The step that matters
Boiling gently for 10 minutes after the water reaches a boil. The 10 minutes should start only once the water is boiling. A vigorous boil can crack bottles and break up the fruit, while too short a time may leave the contents under-processed.
“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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