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To Bottle Green Gooseberries

A method of preserving green gooseberries by bottling them with sugar and water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bottles

  1. Place the green gooseberries into wide-mouthed bottles.

  2. Add enough sugar to sweeten the gooseberries.

  3. Fill the bottles with water and tie them down with a wetted bladder.

Cook and cool

  1. Put the bottles into a boiler and heat until the syrup boils.

  2. Once boiling, let the fire go out and leave the bottles in the water until cool.

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

Green gooseberries
The fruit that is packed into the bottles and softened by the heat of the boiler.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and forms a syrup that helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Letting the bottles cool in the water. Once the fire is out, the bottles should cool slowly in the water. A sudden change in temperature can crack glass, so leaving them to cool gradually helps keep the bottles intact.

“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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