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Modern Cookery

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Modern Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the gooseberries by washing them thoroughly.

  2. Fill bottles with the gooseberries, leaving some space at the top.

  3. Pour scalding water into the bottles to cover the gooseberries completely.

  4. Cork the bottles tightly and seal the necks with melted resin.

  5. Store the bottles in a cool place.

  6. When ready to use, pour off most of the water and add sugar to taste.

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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