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Gooseberry

A baked pastry dish filled with gooseberries and sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Pick and remove the stems from the gooseberries.

  2. Fill a dish with the gooseberries.

  3. Sprinkle the sugar over the gooseberries.

Cover and bake

  1. Cover the dish with pastry.

  2. Bake at 400°F (200°C) and serve.

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 main filling and the tart flavour that the sugar balances.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the gooseberries' natural tartness.
Pastry
Covers the fruit to enclose the filling while it bakes.

“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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