Can somebody give me a really good gooseberry jam recipe they have tried please?

Question

Can somebody give me a really good gooseberry jam recipe they have tried please?

Answer 1

If you're in the USA and talking about that type of gooseberry jam (preserves), I just always follow the directions that come with the package of Sure Jel.  I normally only have enough gooseberries to make a pie, so I'm jealous that you have that many.  None of the farm markets around here have them!

Answer 2

I did not have enough rhubarb this year so I mixed it will the gooseberries and strawberries - make a great jam! I also use this same recipe for gooseberry jam, just eliminate the strawberries and rhubarb and use 10 cups of gooseberries.

4 cups gooseberries

2 cups strawberries

4 cups rhubarb

8 cups sugar (more or less according to your own taste)

Wash fruit. Slice rhubarb in large pot, cover with 1/2 of the sugar and let stand for 1 to 2 hours. Mix remaining berries and sugar with rhubarb. Place over low heat until sugar is disolved. Boil rapidly, stirring frequently to prevent burning. Cook until thick. Pour into sterlized jars, cap. Boiling water bath for 10 minutes.  

Answer 3

Ingredients

2 cups gooseberries (or white currants)

1/4 cup water

8 cups strawberries

4 cups sugar

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

Directions

1 Wash the gooseberries and put them in a sauce pan with the water.

2 Cover and bring them to a boil, stirring gently, until they are all popped.

3 Press through a sieve, and reserve the puree.

4 Discard the skins, stems and seeds.

5 Gently rinse the strawberries and drain well.

6 Mash them lightly.

7 Mix the gooseberry puree, strawberries, sugar and lemon juice in a large pot.

8 Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until the sugar dissolves.

9 Boil hard until the mixture just reaches the gell stage, about 20 minutes.

10 Remove from the heat and skim.

11 Seal in sterilized jars.

12 Process in boiling water for 5 minutes.  

Answer 4

Green gooseberry jam  

Makes approx. 4 jars  



Preparation time 30 mins to 1 hour

Cooking time 30 mins to 1 hour

  







Ingredients

6lb green goosberries

5lb sugar

Method

Cut the stalks and tops from the fruit, weigh and bruise it slightly, boil it for six or seven minutes, keeping it well turned during the time, then to every 3lb of gooseberries add 2½lb sugar beaten to a powder, and boil the preserve quickly for ¾ of an hour. It must be constantly stirred, and carefully cleared from scum. This makes a fine, firm and refreshing preserve if the fruit be rubbed through a sieve before the sugar is added. If well reduced afterwards, it may be converted into a gateau, or gooseberry-solid, with 3lb of sugar, or even a smaller proportion. The preceding jam will often turn in perfect form from the moulds or jars which contain it; and if freed from the seeds, would be very excellent: it is extremely good even made as above. For all preserves, the reduction, or boiling down to a certain consistency, should take place principally befor the sugar is mingled with them; and this has the best effect when added to the fruit and dissolved in it by degrees.