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To Preserve Gooseberries

This recipe preserves gooseberries by boiling them, making a sugar jelly, and storing them in glasses.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Boil the gooseberries in enough water to cover them.

  2. Strain the liquid and let it settle.

Make the jelly

  1. For every pint of liquid, add 1 pound of sugar to make a jelly.

Pot and store

  1. Place the gooseberries in glasses.

  2. Once cold, cover them with the jelly the next day.

  3. Wet the paper. Let it dry slightly before placing it over the glass.

  4. Store in a dry place.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit body and natural pectin-bearing flesh that gives the preserve its base.
Double refined sugar
Sweetens the preserve and helps it set into a jelly as it thickens.

The step that matters

Adding the sugar to the strained liquid. Sugar must be measured against the liquid volume and dissolved fully before setting. Too little sugar gives a runny preserve that may not set, while the right ratio helps the jelly firm as it cools.

“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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