Name: Gooseberry Tart
Ingredients: 2 pints gooseberries; ½ cup brown sugar; ⅓ cup water

Gooseberry Tart

Ingredients

2 pints gooseberries
½ cup brown sugar
⅓ cup water

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Pick the heads and stems from the gooseberries and clean them with a towel.
Fill a baking dish with the gooseberries.

Bake

Add the brown sugar and a little water.
Cover the dish and bake for about 1 hour at 350°F (175°C).

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: Form the fruit filling and provide the tart flavor that the sugar balances.
Brown sugar: Adds sweetness and helps the gooseberries soften and form a syrup as they bake.
Water: Adds moisture to help the fruit soften and create a little syrup during baking.

“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.