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Preserved Gooseberries

Preserved gooseberries are made by boiling sugar and water, then adding gooseberries and boiling until thickened, then jarred.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Preserved Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1 lb of sugar with ½ cup of water in a pot and boil until clear.

  2. Add 1 lb of green, hard gooseberries and boil for 30 minutes.

  3. Pour the mixture into jars while hot and seal.

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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What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit body and tartness that define the preserves.
Sugar
Sweetens the preserves and helps set the syrup while boiling down the fruit.

The step that matters

Boiling the gooseberries for 30 minutes. Sugar syrup must be boiled to a thick, concentrated state so the preserves set and keep. Undercooking can leave runny preserves, and the gooseberries need enough time to soften and absorb the syrup.

“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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