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Green Gooseberries

Preserved green gooseberries cooked in water until white, canned, then reheated.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Preserve

  1. Cook the gooseberries in water until they turn white, but do not break them.

  2. Place the berries into cans with as little water as possible.

  3. Fill the cans with boiling water and seal them.

Use

  1. When opened, pour off the water and cook the berries like fresh ones.

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 gooseberries
Provide the fruit base; their natural tartness gives the finished dish a sharp, bright flavour.

The step that matters

Cook the gooseberries until white but unbroken. Gentle heating softens the berries and sets their skins without bursting them. Overcooking breaks down the pectin and flesh, so the berries turn mushy inside the cans.

“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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