Gooseberries in Bottles
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and bottle
Prepare the gooseberries and fill bottles, leaving space at the top.
Pour scalding water into the bottles to cover the gooseberries completely.
Cork the bottles tightly and seal the necks with melted resin.
Store and serve
Store the bottles in a cool place.
When ready to use, pour off most of the water and add sugar to taste.
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
- Gooseberries
- The fruit being preserved; its natural tartness flavours the finished dish.
- Sugar
- Added at the end to sweeten the fruit to taste.
- Melted resin
- Seals the bottle necks, keeping air out of the sealed bottles.
The step that matters
Cork tightly and seal the necks. Air that gets into the bottle can let the fruit spoil. A tight cork and a full seal of melted resin keep the bottle closed so the gooseberries stay preserved during storage.
“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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