Seeded Gooseberries
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Boil water and sugar together to make a syrup.
Cook and soak the gooseberries
Simmer the gooseberries in the syrup for 8 to 12 minutes.
Remove the gooseberries from the heat and let them cool in the syrup for a couple of days.
On the third day, drain the syrup, simmer and skim it, then pour it over the gooseberries immediately.
Dry the fruit
After 48 hours, drain the gooseberries and place them singly on plates or dishes.
Put the plates in a gentle oven to dry.
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 that is cooked, soaked and dried into the preserves.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, in a concentrated syrup, helps preserve it by drawing out water.
The step that matters
Simmering the gooseberries in the syrup. Simmering for only 8 to 12 minutes softens the fruit while keeping its skin intact. Overcooking breaks the berries apart, and the soaking that follows depends on the fruit holding 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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