GREEN GOOSEBERRY JAM

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
For the jam
Instructions (10)
  1. Take the green walnut gooseberries when they are full grown, but not ripe, cut them in two and pick out the seeds.
  2. Put them in a pan of water, green them as you do the gooseberries in imitation of hops, and lay them on a sieve to drain.
  3. Beat them in a marble mortar, with their weight in sugar.
  4. Take a quart of gooseberries, boil them to mash in a quart of water.
  5. Squeeze the mashed gooseberries.
  6. To every pint of the resulting liquor, add a pound of fine loaf sugar.
  7. Boil and skim the sugar liquor.
  8. Add the prepared green gooseberries to the liquor.
  9. Boil until the jam is pretty thick, clear, and a pretty green.
  10. Put the jam in glasses for use.
Original Text
To make GREEN GOOSEBERRY JAM. TAKE the green walnut gooseberries when they are full grown, but not ripe, cut them in two and pick out the seeds, then put them in a pan of water, green them as you do the gooseber- ries in imitation of hops, and lay them on a sieve to drain, then beat them in a marble mor- tar, with their weight in sugar, then take a quart of gooseberries, boil them to mash in a quart of water, then squeeze them, and to every pint of liquor put a pound of fine loaf sugar, boil and skim it, then put in your green gooseberries, boil boil them till they are pretty thick, clear, and a pretty green, then put them in glasses for use.
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