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Dried Gooseberries

A method of drying gooseberries by coating them in sugar, boiling a syrup, and sun-drying the fruit.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and scald

  1. Add the gooseberries to a large bowl.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the gooseberries.

  3. Scald the mixture.

Dry in the sun

  1. Spread the mixture on platters.

  2. Boil the syrup a little longer.

  3. Pour the syrup over the fruit.

  4. Dry the fruit in the sun.

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
Supply the main fruit and its tart flavour, which the sugar balances.
Sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and forms a syrup that preserves it as it dries.

The step that matters

Boil the syrup a little longer. Boiling concentrates the sugar syrup further. A syrup with enough dissolved sugar draws more moisture from the fruit and helps it keep as it dries.

“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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