To keep Green Gooseberries till Christmas

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Instructions (10)
  1. Pick your large green gooseberries on a dry day.
  2. Have ready your bottles clean and dry.
  3. Fill the bottles and cork them.
  4. Set them in a kettle of water up to the necks.
  5. Let the water boil very softly till you find the gooseberries are coddled.
  6. Take them out, and put in the rest of the bottles till all are done.
  7. Have ready rosin melted in a pipkin.
  8. Dip the necks of the bottles in the melted rosin, and that will keep all air from coming at the cork.
  9. Keep them in a cold dry place, where no damp is, and they will bake as red as a cherry.
  10. You may keep them without scalding, but then the skins will not be so tender, or bake so fine.
Original Text
To keep Green Gooseberries till Christmas. PICK your large green gooseberries on a dry day, have ready your bottles clean and dry, fill the bottles and cork them, set them in a kettle of water up to the necks, let the water boil very softly till you find the gooseberries are coddled, take them out, and put in the rest of the bottles till all are done; then have ready rosin melted in a pipkin, dip the necks of the bottles in, and that will keep all air from coming at the cork, keep them in a cold dry place, where no damp is, and they will bake as red as a cherry. You may keep them without scalding, but then the skins will not be so tender, or bake so fine.
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