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Gooseberries in Sugar

6 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg ripe, thin-skinned gooseberries
• 1 kg sugar
• 0.25 l white wine

Instructions

1. Wash the gooseberries clean, let them dry, and remove the stems and calyxes.
2. Soften the sugar with a quarter liter of white wine, skim well, and cook into a thin syrup.
3. Slowly cook the berries until soft in the syrup, fill both into a jar, and let stand for 4-5 days covered with paper.
4. Pour off the juice, reduce it to a thick syrup, and pour it hot over the gooseberries.
5. Treat and store the jars as usual.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.