Gooseberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Measure equal parts of ripe gooseberries and lump sugar.
Break the gooseberries well.
Combine the broken gooseberries with the sugar in a pot.
Cook and jar
Boil the mixture for 30 minutes or longer if needed.
Pour the jam into pots and cover with paper.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Ripe gooseberries
- Provide the fruit base, flavour, and natural pectin that helps the jam set.
- Lump sugar
- Sweetens the jam and, with boiling, helps it thicken and keep.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture for 30 minutes or longer if needed. Boiling evaporates water and concentrates the sugar and pectin. If the boil is too short, the jam may stay runny; the set forms as it cools.
“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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