To Dry Ripe Gooseberries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the tops off the ripe gooseberries, leaving the stalks intact.
Remove the seeds as directed for unripe gooseberries.
Cook in syrup
Boil the gooseberries in a syrup made from 1 pound of sugar and 1 pint of water until clear and tender.
Continue boiling until the syrup thickens.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Forms a thick syrup that sweetens the fruit and preserves it as it dries.
- Gooseberries
- The fruit being candied; it softens and turns clear as it cooks in the syrup.
The step that matters
Continue boiling until the syrup thickens. Sugar concentration drives preservation. If the syrup is not cooked down enough, it stays too watery and the fruit may ferment or fail to hold its shape.
“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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