Stewed Gooseberries

Ingredients

• Pick over a quart of green gooseberries
• put a pound of sugar
• half a cupful of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Remove tops and stems from gooseberries, boil for two minutes, then drain and cool in cold water.

2. 2

   Boil sugar with cold water until clear, add gooseberries, and stew until tender.

3. 3

   Skim out gooseberries, boil syrup until it jellies slightly, then pour over gooseberries and serve cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 298. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEWED GOOSEBERRIES. Pick over a quart of green gooseberries, remove the tops and stems, then throw them into fast-boiling water, and let them remain two minutes ; then drain them, and let them stand for two minutes in sufficient cold water to entirely cover them, and then drain them again. When the goose- berries are first put over the fire, put a pound of sugar into a preserving-kettle with half a cupful of cold water

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