Green Gooseberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the green gooseberries thoroughly.
Place them in a pot and crush them slightly.
Add an equal weight of sugar to the pot.
Cook and jar
Cook over medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
Continue to cook until the mixture thickens.
Pour into sterilized jars and seal.
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
- Green gooseberries
- Provide the fruit, pectin and tartness that give the jam its flavour and body.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam, balances the tartness and helps it thicken as it cooks.
The step that matters
Cooking until the mixture thickens. Sugar and fruit pectin set only when the mixture reaches a high enough concentration of sugar. Stopping too early leaves a runny jam, while cooking too long can make it stiff and dull in flavour.
“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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