Compote of Green Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water until thick.
Prepare the gooseberries
Scald the gooseberries in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
Plunge them into cold water to restore color.
Cook and serve
Place the gooseberries in the syrup and boil for 10-15 minutes.
Turn them out into a serving dish with the syrup.
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
- Loaf sugar
- Dissolves into the water to form a syrup that sweetens and thickens the fruit.
- Green gooseberries
- Provide the tart fruit that is cooked until tender in the syrup.
The step that matters
Plunging the gooseberries into cold water. Moving the scalded fruit straight into cold water stops the cooking and helps the green skins keep their colour. Leaving them in hot water too long would let them keep cooking and go dull.
“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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