To Bottle Green Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Pack and seal
Pick green gooseberries into bottles, packing them close without bruising.
Fill the bottles with syrup up to the necks.
Cork the bottles and tie them down.
Boil
Boil in water for 10 minutes after it 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
- Tart unripe fruit that is the preserved food, adding sharp acidity and holding its shape.
- Syrup
- Sugar dissolved in water sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by drawing out water.
The step that matters
Boil for 10 minutes after it reaches a boil. The 10 minutes should start only once the water is fully boiling. Holding the sealed bottles at boiling heat for the full time heats the fruit and syrup through, which helps the preserved gooseberries keep. Starting the timer early can leave the centre of the fruit under-heated.
“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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