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Green Gooseberries

Preserved gooseberries boiled in water and stored in bottles for up to a year.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Green Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut off the tops and stalks of the gooseberries.

  2. Place them in clean, wide-mouthed bottles and cork them tightly.

Cook and store

  1. Set the bottles in a can of cold water and bring to a boil. Ensure the berries do not break during boiling.

  2. Wipe the bottles and store them in a dry place; they will keep for a year.

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
Are the fruit being preserved, so they form the entire contents of the jar.

The step that matters

Bringing the bottles to a boil. Heating the bottles gently in cold water lets the fruit heat through without bursting, and the sealed jars keep air out. Rapid boiling can break the berries and loosen the cork, so the seal and texture may fail.

“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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