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To Bottle Gooseberries

A method of preserving gooseberries by bottling them in cold boiled water and burying the bottles for winter.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pick gooseberries when they are fully grown but not yet ripe.

  2. Remove the stems from the gooseberries.

Bottle the fruit

  1. Fill dry bottles with gooseberries nearly to the top.

  2. Cover the gooseberries with cold boiled water.

Bury and store

  1. Dig a hole in the ground.

  2. Bury the bottles two feet deep.

  3. Keep the bottles buried all winter.

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
The fruit being preserved, stored whole in the bottles.

The step that matters

Covering the gooseberries with water. Filling the bottles nearly to the top and covering the fruit fully with water keeps air away from it. Less air means slower spoilage and less browning during long 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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