Green or Red Gooseberries Preserved
Ingredients
Directions
Wet and scald the gooseberries without boiling them.
Let them sit in their own liquor for three days.
Drain the liquor and place the gooseberries in a pan with a little sugar.
Follow the same process for wet preserving as described.
Store in pots, covered, and keep free from damp.
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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