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Preserved Gooseberries

Preserved gooseberries are gooseberries sweetened and dried after being boiled in sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Preserved Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate

  1. Wash the gooseberries and place them in a preserving pan with sugar on top.

  2. Heat the pan until the juice starts to come out, then remove from heat.

  3. Repeat this process for two more days.

Dry and pack

  1. Remove the gooseberries from the syrup and drain them on sieves.

  2. Dry the gooseberries in front of the fire or in the sun.

  3. Optionally, dip them in fine sugar and pack in boxes.

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
Form the main fruit, whose juice is drawn out and whose flesh is preserved.
Sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and helps preserve it, adding sweetness.

The step that matters

Heating the pan until the juice starts to come out. Gentle heating draws juice out and dissolves the sugar into a syrup. Repeating it over several days lets the sugar penetrate the fruit gradually, so the gooseberries keep their shape instead of breaking down.

“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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