Green Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the gooseberries
Cut off the tops of the gooseberries, leaving the stalks intact.
Split the gooseberries halfway down and remove the seeds.
Make the syrup and cook
Simmer the sugar in the water until dissolved, then skim the syrup.
Add the gooseberries to the syrup and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes until clear and tender.
Lift the gooseberries out of the syrup and add more gooseberries if desired.
Drain and store
Drain the gooseberries when done and dry them gradually, or keep them in the syrup until needed.
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
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, dissolved in water, forms the syrup that preserves its shape and clarity.
- Green gooseberries
- Provide the fruit itself, which turns tender and clear as it simmers in the syrup.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar to make the syrup in which the fruit cooks.
The step that matters
Simmering the gooseberries in syrup. Simmering too hard or too long can break the fruit apart and cloud the syrup. A gentle simmer for the stated 5 to 7 minutes lets the fruit turn tender and clear while keeping its shape.
“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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