FoodNet

To Keep Gooseberries

From The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts

Ensure air is kept from the fruit.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts (1900), page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Keep Gooseberries. Before they become too large, (take care not to cut them in taking off the stalk and buds) fill wide-mouthed bottles ; put the corks in loosely, and set up to the necks in water, in a boiler. When the fruit looks scalded, take it out, and, when perfectly cold, cork close, and rosin the top. Dig a trench in the ground

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.