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To Preserve Yellow or Green Gooseberries

A method for preserving yellow or green gooseberries by boiling them with sugar and removing seeds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Yellow or Green Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the tops and tails from the gooseberries.

  2. Slit the gooseberries up the sides and remove the seeds with a silver knife or teaspoon.

  3. Place the seeds and any attached pulp into a sieve to collect the juice.

Cook the preserve

  1. Boil the collected juice with the sugar in equal quantities.

  2. Add the gooseberry skins to the mixture and boil until perfectly clear.

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 fruit flavour, and their skins and seeds supply pectin that helps the preserve set.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the preserve and helps it thicken and set as it boils.

The step that matters

Boil until perfectly clear. Underboiling leaves the preserve runny because the sugar and pectin have not concentrated enough to set. Overboiling darkens the colour and can make the set too stiff, so watch the mixture closely.

“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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