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To Bottle Gooseberries

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

Ingredients

Directions

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

  2. Remove the stems from the gooseberries.

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

  4. Cover the gooseberries with cold boiled water.

  5. Dig a hole in the ground and bury the bottles two feet deep.

  6. Store the bottles to keep the gooseberries perfect 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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