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To Bottle Gooseberries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Bottle Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick off the stems and black specks from the gooseberries.

  2. Heat your bottles.

  3. Fill the bottles with the berries.

  4. Pour boiling water over the berries to cover them.

  5. Seal the bottles immediately.

  6. To use, cook the berries in the water they were sealed in or use fresh water, adjusting sugar as needed.

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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