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Preserved Gooseberries

Preserved gooseberries are made by cooking gooseberries with sugar until the mixture becomes clear and syrup thickens.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Gooseberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the gooseberries and remove any stems.

  2. In a pot, combine the gooseberries and sugar.

  3. Cook over medium heat until the mixture is clear and the syrup thickens.

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 body and tartness that form the base of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as it dissolves, thickens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Cooking until the syrup thickens. Sugar and fruit pectin set as the mixture cooks down. Stopping too early leaves a runny preserve, while cooking too long can make it stiff and cause the sugar to crystallize.

“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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