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Gooseberry-Cheese

A dessert made by mashing gooseberries with sugar, boiling, sieving, and setting in molds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Gooseberry-Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mash the gooseberries.

  2. Mix the mashed gooseberries with sugar.

  3. Let the mixture stand overnight.

Cook and strain

  1. Boil the mixture.

  2. Rub the boiled mixture through a sieve.

  3. Boil the pulp over gentle heat for 25 minutes.

Set

  1. Pour the pulp into molds or pots to set.

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
Provide the fruit pulp that forms the body and tart flavour of the cheese.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as it cooks down, helps the mixture thicken and set.

The step that matters

Boil the pulp over gentle heat for 25 minutes. Fruit pulp sets only once enough water evaporates and sugar concentrates to the point where pectin gels. Gentle heat reduces the mixture slowly and avoids scorching the sugar at the bottom of the pan.

“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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