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To Keep Gooseberries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Keep Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the gooseberries until they are scalded on the outside.

  2. Turn them out onto a cloth and cover with another cloth.

  3. Pick out any bad or broken gooseberries the next day.

  4. Bottle the good ones and fill with the alum-water used for scalding.

  5. Seal the bottles tightly and keep them in a cool place.

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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