Gooseberry Jam, Green

Ingredients

• a pound of green gooseberries
• a pound of sugar
• half a pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Boil the sugar and water together for fifteen minutes, add the gooseberries, and simmer gently until the jam sets.

2. 2

   Pour into jars.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 625. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pound of green gooseberries, and boil them witli three-quartei-s of a pound of sugar and a cupful of water. When quite soft, press them through a coarse sieve, and mix with them, very gradually, a pint of milk ; or cream, if a richer dish is required. Servo when cold. This old-fashioned dish is whole- some and inexpensive, and, when well made, very agreeable. Time, about twenty minutes to boil the fruit. Probable cost, 9d. for this quantitj^ if made with milk. Sufficient for six or seven children. Gooseberry Jam. — Take the tops and stalks from some light-coloured goosebemes, i-ather under-ripe, and allow one pound of loaf sugar, and the finely-grated lind and juicx) of half a lemon, to every pound of fruit. Put the ben-ies into a saucepan, strew the sugar, &c., over them, add a little water, to pi-event burn- ing, bring them to a boil, and skim carefully. When the jam has boiled about a quarter of an hour, put a little on a cold plate. If it jellies, even slightly, it may be taken from the fire, and poured into jai's. Probable cost, 7d. or 8d. per pound. Gooseberry Jam, Green,~AUow a pound of sugar and half a pint of water

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