To Keep Gooseberries and Damsons

Ingredients

• Gooseberries
• Damsons
• Coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

1. Pick the fruit when not too ripe.

2. Place them in wide-mouthed bottles and cork them gently.

3. Put the bottles in a 300°F (150°C) oven until the fruit has shrunk by a third.

4. Remove from the oven, tighten the corks, and seal them with rosin.