GOOSEBERRY Paste

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (3)

a pound of red gooseberries when they are full grown and turned, but not ripe ↝ Gooseberries, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
a pint of currant juice ↝ Currants, dried [Dried fruits]
a pound and a half of double refined sugar

Instructions (6)

Take a pound of red gooseberries when they are full grown and turned, but not ripe, cut them in halves, pick out all the seeds.
Have ready a pint of currant juice.
Boil your gooseberries in it till they are tender.
Put a pound and a half of double refined sugar into your pan, with as much water as will dissolve it, and boil it to sugar again.
Then put all together and make it scalding hot, but it must not boil.
Pour it into plates or glasses the thickness you like, then dry it in a stove.

Original Text

To make GOOSEBERRY Paste.
TAKE a pound of red gooseberries when they are full grown and turned, but not ripe, cut them in halves, pick out all the seeds, have ready a pint of currant juice, boil your gooseberries in it till they are tender, put a pound and a half of double refined sugar into your pan, with as much water as will dissolve it, and boil it to sugar again, then put all together and make it scalding hot, but it must not boil, pour it into plates or glasses the thickness you like, then dry it in a stove.

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