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Gooseberry Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg gooseberries
• 3 pcs eggs (well-whisked)
• 60 g butter (melted)
• sugar (to taste)
• 1 cup ladyfingers (crushed)

Instructions

1. Steam the gooseberries in an earthenware pot until they are mushy, then strain through a coarse sieve.
2. Beat half a liter of the pulp with the well-whisked eggs, then add the melted butter and sugar to taste.
3. Finally, stir in the crushed ladyfingers and bake the dish in the oven for half an hour.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.