Gooseberry Jam Spiced

Ingredients

• 0.5 gallon green gooseberries
• 6 cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 0.5 teaspoon cloves
• 0.5 teaspoon allspice
• 0.5 teaspoon mace
• 0.5 teaspoon nutmeg
• 0.5 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 whole orange

Instructions

1. Wash and nub half a gallon of green gooseberries picked just before they ripen. Put them in a kettle with six large cups of sugar, a cup of water, half a teaspoon each of cloves, allspice, mace, grated nutmeg, and cinnamon, along with the grated yellow peel of an orange and its strained juice.
2. Cook slowly until thick. It should jelly when dropped on a plate. Pack in small jars.
3. Variation: By leaving out the spices and merely cooking the berries thick enough to cut like cheese, it serves as fine as bar le duc for serving with salad.