To Dry Ripe Gooseberries with Sugar

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (11)
  1. Cut the tops, but not the stalks, from some ripe gooseberries of the largest size, either red or green ones.
  2. Take out the seeds as directed for unripe gooseberries.
  3. Boil the fruit until clear and tender, in syrup made with a pound of sugar to the pint of water, boiled until rather thick.
  4. Simmer gooseberries 8 to 12 minutes, or more.
Observation/Alternative Method
  1. Free large ripe gooseberries from the blossoms.
  2. Put them into cold syrup in which cherries or any other fruit has been boiled for drying.
  3. Heat very gradually, and keep at the point of boiling for a few minutes before setting by for a couple of days.
  4. On the third day, drain the syrup from them.
  5. Simmer the syrup, skim it, and pour it on the gooseberries the instant it is taken from the fire.
  6. In forty-eight hours after, drain them from the syrup and lay them singly upon plates or dishes.
  7. Place the dishes in a gentle stove.
Original Text
TO DRY RIPE GOOSEBERRIES WITH SUGAR. Cut the tops, but not the stalks, from some ripe gooseberries of the largest size, either red or green ones, and after having taken out the seeds as directed for unripe gooseberries, boil the fruit until clear and tender, in syrup made with a pound of sugar to the pint of water, boiled until rather thick. 502Seeded gooseberries, 2 lbs.; sugar, 1-1/2 lb.; water, 1 pint: boiled to syrup. Gooseberries, simmered 8 to 12 minutes, or more. Obs.—Large ripe gooseberries freed from the blossoms, and put into cold syrup in which cherries or any other fruit has been boiled for drying, then heated very gradually, and kept at the point of boiling for a few minutes before they are set by for a couple of days, answer extremely well as a dry preserve. On the third day the syrup should be drained from them, simmered, skimmed, and poured on them the instant it is taken from the fire; in forty-eight hours after, they may be drained from it and laid singly upon plates or dishes, and placed in a gentle stove.
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