To bottle GOOSEBERRIES a second Way

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Instructions (9)
  1. Put one ounce of roach allum, beat fine, into a large pan of boiling hard water.
  2. Pick your gooseberries, and put a few in the bottom of a hair sieve, and hold them in the boiling water till they turn white.
  3. Then take out the sieve, and spread the gooseberries betwixt two clean cloths.
  4. Put more gooseberries in your sieve, and repeat it till you have done all your berries.
  5. Put the water into a glazed pot till next day.
  6. Then put your gooseberries into wide-mouthed bottles, and pick out all the cracked and broken ones.
  7. Pour your water clear out of the pot, and fill up your bottles with it.
  8. Then put in the corks loosely, and let them stand for a fortnight.
  9. If they rise to the corks, draw them out, and let them stand for two or three days un-corked, then cork them close, and they will keep two years.
Original Text
To bottle GOOSEBERRIES a second Way. PUT one ounce of roach allum, beat fine, into a large pan of boiling hard water, pick your gooseberries, and put a few in the bottom of a hair sieve, and hold them in the boiling water till they turn white; then take out the sieve, and spread the gooseberries betwixt two clean cloths, put more gooseberries in your sieve, and repeat it till you have done all your berries, put the water into a glazed pot till next day, then put your gooseberries into wide-mouthed bottles, and pick out all the cracked and broken ones, pour your water clear out of the pot, and fill up your bottles with it; then put in the corks loosely, and let them stand for a fortnight, and if they rise to the corks, draw them out, and let them stand for two or three days un-corked, then cork them close, and they will keep two years.
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