To keep Green Gooseberries till Christmas

Pick your large green Gooseberries on a dry Day, have ready your Bottles clean and dry, fill the Bottles and cork them, set them in a Kettle of Water up to their Neck, let the Water boil very softly till you find the Gooseberries are coddled, take them out, and put in the rest of the Bottles till all is done; then have ready some Rosin melted in a Pipkin, dip the Necks of the Bottles in, and that will keep all Air from coming in at the Cork, keep them in a cool dry Place, where no Damp is, and they will bake as red as a Cherry. You may keep them without scalding, but then the Skins will not be so tender, nor bake so fine.