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Dried Gooseberries

A preserved fruit made by simmering gooseberries with sugar and drying them.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Place 5 pounds of gooseberries in a saucepan and sprinkle with 1 pound of sugar.

  2. Heat on low until syrup begins to form, then remove from heat.

  3. Repeat this process for 2 to 3 days.

Dry and store

  1. Afterward, remove gooseberries from syrup and place on a sieve to dry.

  2. Optionally, dip them in powdered white sugar after removing from syrup.

  3. Store in a tin box with paper between layers.

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
The fruit itself, which is softened and candied by repeated soaking in sugar syrup.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out moisture, forming the syrup that preserves it.

The step that matters

Repeating the syrup process. Sugar slowly replaces the water in the fruit over several days of gentle heating and resting. Heating too hard or stopping early can leave the fruit wet or prone to spoiling.

“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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