White Gooseberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Gather ripe gooseberries and remove stems and tails.
Make the jam
In a pot, combine sugar and water; boil and skim the mixture.
Add the gooseberries to the pot and simmer gently until clear.
Break the jam gently, then pour it into small pots.
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
- Gooseberries
- Provide the fruit body and pectin-bearing flesh that gives the jam its set and flavor.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and helps it thicken and keep as it cools.
The step that matters
Simmer the gooseberries gently until clear. Gentle simmering keeps the fruit pieces intact while the sugar syrup slowly softens and clears them. Boiling hard can break the fruit apart and make the jam cloudy or overcooked.
“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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