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To Preserve Green Gooseberries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Preserve Green Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather green, hard, and dry gooseberries; top and tail them.

  2. Place them in wide-mouthed bottles, cork, and seal.

  3. Put straw in the bottom of a large pot, place bottles upright, and fill the pot with water up to the necks of the bottles.

  4. Boil the water, then remove the bottles immediately.

  5. Uncork the bottles and fill them with boiling water, then cork again.

  6. Once cool, seal the bottles and store them on their sides in a cool, dry place.

  7. Turn the bottles twice a week for a month.

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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