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Gooseberry Cheese

A cheese made by cooking gooseberries with sugar until it hardens.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Gather ripe red gooseberries and bake them until they are a perfect mash.

  2. Pass the mashed gooseberries through a fine sieve.

Make the cheese

  1. Put the strained gooseberries in a preserving kettle and boil them gently.

  2. Gradually stir in the sugar, adding it at different times.

  3. Boil for several hours until it hardens when cooled.

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

Ripe red gooseberries
Provide the fruit base, with natural pectin and acidity that help the mixture set as it thickens.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as it concentrates during boiling, helps the mixture thicken and firm up.

The step that matters

Boiling until it hardens. Sugar and fruit pectin set only when enough water has evaporated and the mixture is concentrated. Stopping too early leaves a soft, runny result, while the cooled test shows whether it will hold its shape.

“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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