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Seeded Gooseberries

A preserve made by boiling gooseberries in a sugar syrup, then draining and drying.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil water and sugar together to make a syrup.

  2. Simmer the gooseberries in the syrup for 8 to 12 minutes.

  3. Remove the gooseberries from the syrup.

  4. Let the gooseberries cool.

Soak and drain

  1. On the third day, drain the syrup.

  2. Simmer the syrup.

  3. Skim the syrup.

  4. Pour the hot syrup over the gooseberries immediately after removing from heat.

  5. After 48 hours, drain the gooseberries.

Dry

  1. Place the gooseberries on plates or dishes.

  2. Put the plates in a gentle oven to dry.

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 body and tartness that form the base of the jam.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, once dissolved, forms the syrup that preserves it.

The step that matters

Pour the hot syrup over the gooseberries immediately after removing from heat. Pouring the syrup while it is still hot helps the sugar penetrate the fruit evenly and keeps the gooseberries from drying unevenly or spoiling before the soaking begins.

“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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