Dinner for an Invalid
Ingredients
Directions
Strain the juice from the gooseberries.
Add sugar to the juice and let it sit for 20 minutes until it jellies on a plate.
Add 1 pound of sugar for each pound of fruit to the strained gooseberries.
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
- Supplies the fruit, along with its pectin and acid, that helps the jam set.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and helps it set and keep.
The step that matters
Testing the set on a plate. The plate test, done after sugar is added to the juice, shows whether the pectin and acid in the fruit are enough to gel. Judging it too early or too late gives a runny or stiff jam.
“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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