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To Preserve Gooseberries

Preserves rough‑skinned gooseberries in sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Preserve Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and dry the gooseberries thoroughly.

  2. Layer the gooseberries and sugar in a pan, using more sugar than the weight of the fruit.

Cook and jar

  1. Add ½ cup of water and boil the mixture quickly until the fruit is clear.

  2. Remove the fruit and place it into jars.

  3. Boil the syrup until it thickens, then pour it over the fruit in the jars.

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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What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit that becomes tender and clear in the sugar syrup.
Sugar
Preserves the fruit and, boiled into syrup, sets the thick coating around it.

The step that matters

Boil the fruit until clear. Boiling quickly in sugar syrup lets the fruit take up sugar and turn clear while keeping its shape. Overcooking can split or collapse the berries, so the fruit should be removed once clear.

“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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