Green Gooseberry Jam

The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Til... · Lady Clark of Tillypronie · 1909
Source
The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (4)
  1. Cut off the Gooseberry stalks and “noses” close to the fruit which should be full grown but still green, and not having coloured.
  2. Split each gooseberry in two with a silver knife.
  3. Put the fruit to boil with 1 qt. of water in a preserving pan; stir with a wooden spoon till dissolved, then rub through a coarse hair-sieve, and add 12 ozs. of sugar for each 16 ozs. of fruit.
  4. Boil for about 1/2 of an hour.
Original Text
Green Gooseberry Jam. (Mrs. Booth. 1879.) Cut off the Gooseberry stalks and “noses” close to the fruit which should be full grown but still green, and not having coloured. Split each gooseberry in two with a silver knife. Put the fruit to boil with 1 qt. of water in a preserving pan; stir with a wooden spoon till dissolved, then rub through a coarse hair-sieve, and add 12 ozs. of sugar for each 16 ozs. of fruit. Boil for about ½ of an hour. A Lancashire recipe; this jam is good for rolled puddings.
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