Gooseberry Toast

Ingredients

• a pint of green gooseberries
• slices of bread
• milk or custard
• fine white sugar
• small lumps of butter

Method

1. 1

   Clean gooseberries and toast bread slices.

2. 2

   Soak bread in milk or custard, sprinkle with sugar.

3. 3

   Stew gooseberries for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Layer toast and fruit in a dish, top with butter, and bake for a quarter of an hour.

5. 5

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gooseberry Toast FRUITS Lemon Snow but unbroken. Turn them out with the syrup, and serve cold. Sufficient for half a dozen persons. Gooseberry Toast. — Pick and clean a pint of green gooseberries, toast as many slices of bread as will fill a deep dish, soak each piece in milk or custard, sprinkle one side of each with fine white sugar ; have the goose- berries stewed for ten minutes ; place the first layer of toast at the bottom of the dish, cover it with the fruit, add another layer of toast, then of fruit, until the dish is full. Put small lumps of butter

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