English Gooseberry Cream
Crême de Groseilles Vertes à l’Anglaise
Take two pounds of fresh-gathered gooseberries, pick and cleanse them, and put them into a clean stewpan with six bayleaves, six ounces of castor sugar, and a pint of water; let them boil to a pulp; colour, if needed, with Marshall’s Sap Green, and pass them through a fine hair sieve; add to the purée when cold one and a half pints of thick cream that is sweetened with two ounces of castor sugar, and two wineglassfuls of Marshall’s Kirsch Syrup may be