Gooseberry or Guzgog Jam
Ingredients:
White or Green Gooseberries
Equal weight of fruit & sugar
Select gooseberries not very ripe [top & tail them]
Boil the sugar with water [allowing ½pint water to every pound of sugar] for about ¼hr.... remove scum as it rises.
Add the gooseberries and simmer gently till clear and firm: approx. ¾ hour
Try a little on a dish; if it jellies when cold it is done.. and should then be poured in to very clean pots..
My grandmother used to cover with oiled paper and then greaseproof paper - brushed on both sides, with unbeaten egg white . . . . . before storing in a dry place . . . . . the latter probably improved on today . . . screw top jars. .
Allow 1½ pints of fruit to a 1 lb jar...