Green Gooseberries for Tarts
Ingredients
Directions
Clean and dry wide-necked bottles.
Fill bottles with gooseberries gathered the same day before they are fully grown.
Wrap a little hay around each gooseberry.
Place the bottles upright in a pot of cold water.
Gradually bring the water to a boil.
Gently simmer the fruit.
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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