Name: English Gooseberry Pie
Ingredients: gooseberries, properly picked; sugar, to taste; water, a little; pie crust

English Gooseberry Pie

Ingredients

gooseberries, properly picked
sugar, to taste
water, a little
pie crust

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Line the sides of a deep pudding dish with pie crust, leaving the bottom unlined.

Fill and assemble

Fill the dish generously with the gooseberries.
Add enough sugar to sweeten the gooseberries.
Sprinkle a little water on top of the filling.
Cover with the remaining pie crust.

Bake and serve

Bake for 1 hour.
Serve with rich cream.

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

Gooseberries: Form the bulk of the filling and supply the tart flavour of the pie.
Sugar: Sweetens the gooseberries and balances their natural tartness.
Pie crust: Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns in the oven.

“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.