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To Bottle Gooseberries

Preserve green walnut gooseberries by bottling them in spring water and heating.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Bottle Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick green walnut gooseberries.

  2. Fill bottles with spring water up to the neck.

Heat and seal

  1. Cork the bottles loosely and set them in a pot of hot water until heated through.

  2. Remove the bottles and let them cool, then cork tightly and tie a bladder over them.

Store

  1. Store in a dry, cool place.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Green walnut gooseberries
Provide the fruit that is preserved, keeping its shape and flavour in the bottle.
Roche allum (alum)
Listed in the ingredients but no step says how it is used, so its role is not stated.

The step that matters

Heating the bottles in hot water. Heating the sealed-loosely bottles until the contents are heated through drives air out and helps the fruit stay preserved, while a tight cork and bladder afterward keep air from getting back in during cooling.

“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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