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Gooseberry Pie

A pie filled with cooked gooseberries sweetened with sugar, topped with a second crust and baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Gooseberry Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Cook the gooseberries until soft.

  2. Sweeten the cooked gooseberries with sugar to taste.

  3. Place the sweetened gooseberries in a pie dish.

Assemble and bake

  1. Cover with the second pie crust.

  2. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven until the crust is golden.

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
Provide the tart fruit filling that softens and thickens when cooked.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberries and balances their acidity.
Pie crusts
Enclose the filling and form the golden, browned pastry top and base.

“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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