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Bottle Green Gooseberries

Preserved green gooseberries in bottles with sugar and water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place green gooseberries into wide-mouthed bottles.

  2. Add enough sugar to sweeten the gooseberries.

  3. Fill the bottles with water and seal with a wetted bung.

Bottle and store

  1. Boil the bottles in a pot until the syrup boils, then let the fire go out.

  2. Store the bottles until needed.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Green gooseberries
Provide the fruit, which softens and gives the preserve its tart flavour.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by binding water and slowing spoilage.

The step that matters

Seal the bottles with a wetted bung before boiling. A tight seal keeps air and microbes out during heating and storage. If the bung is not wetted or sealed well, air can get in and the fruit may spoil.

“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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