Seeded Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Boil water and sugar together to make a syrup.
Cook and steep the gooseberries
Simmer the gooseberries in the syrup for 8 to 12 minutes.
Remove from heat and let the gooseberries sit in the syrup for a couple of days.
On the third day, drain the syrup, simmer and skim it, then pour it over the gooseberries immediately.
Dry
After 48 hours, drain the gooseberries and place them singly on plates or dishes.
Dry them in a gentle oven.
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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What each ingredient does
- Gooseberries
- Provide the fruit that is cooked, steeped and then dried into the preserve.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit by drawing out water.
The step that matters
Pouring the hot syrup back over the gooseberries. Sugar syrup must be re-boiled and poured on immediately so the fruit stays hot and the syrup concentrates enough to preserve it; a cooled syrup can let the fruit spoil.
“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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