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White Gooseberry Jam

Jam made from white gooseberries, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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White Gooseberry Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Top and tail the gooseberries.

  2. In a saucepan, combine sugar and water; boil until the sugar is clarified.

Make the jam

  1. Add the gooseberries to the sugar mixture.

  2. Simmer gently until the jam is clear.

  3. Break the jam, then pour it into small pots.

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

White gooseberries
Provide the fruit that forms the jam's body and flavour.
Fine sugar
Sweetens the jam and helps it set as it cooks down.
Water
Dissolves the sugar so it can be boiled into a syrup.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until the jam is clear. Boiling too hard can break down the fruit and scorch the sugar, while gentle simmering lets the pectin in the gooseberries set the jam evenly.

“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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