Gooseberries

ET03

I've just been given 2 carrier bags full of Gooseberries and I really don't know what to do with them apart from gooseberry crumble

rchddap1

You lucky thing.

At least you'll get a chance to 'make' something with them. If it was me OH would hide them and much through them all.

You could make some jam

ET03

has anyone a recipe for gosseberry jam

squeaky

Gooseberry fool!

There's a fool of some description in the Old Style Recipe Collection because I used/adapted it less than a month ago and it was fabulous.

I used all the same instructions but put the goosegobs through a sieve before mixing them in.

Rhubarb Fool

I don't recall a recipe for gooseberry jam, though; sorry.

Ted_Hutchinson

Gooseberry Jam

If you have a pressure cooker you could halve the amount of water and cook them for about 5 minutes.
I'd also put the sugar in a warm oven, with the jam jars while the gooseberries were cooking so the sugar was warm when added to the berries.
I usually make this earlier than now (all my gooseberries are gone now) when the elderflowers are out and a couple of heads of elderflower cooked with them makes it a really muscat flavoured jam. (but it's still ok without)

Chip_Butty_3

Noticed some fruit on a tree & it looks as if its nearly ripe. Has anyone any ideas as to what to do with them once they are picked.
Has anyone any recipes on what I can make with them ?

Cheers

L_D_N

Are they def gooseberries? They grow on bushes. One good thing to do with them is use them as projectile weapons - hurt and go splat when hit, v. funny.

As for cooking with them, you can put them in a crumble with something with rhubarb, or berries - something to take tartness away (providing longer skirts won't do it in their case) as very sour. Hairy too if I remember rightly.

Can use them in recipes that you would use other berries for but I would always mix in something else to take some of flavour out.:j

black-saturn

I really love gooseberries. Try to leave them on the bush as long as you can so they start to go pink, then they will be a bit sweeter. You can use diet lemonade instead of sugar to cook them in which is less calorific.

twink

gooseberry fool

cook the berrys as above and sieve or puree and fold into custard and or whipped cream chill in the fridge

Aril

Make a lovely jam. I use the jam as a filling for a cake along with whipped double cream with 4tbsp of elderflower cordial added to it.
Aril

Ted_Hutchinson

black-saturn wrote:

Try to leave them on the bush as long as you can so they start to go pink, then they will be a bit sweeter.

This only works if you have a pheasant free garden or your gooseberries are behind netting. Any unprototected berries in our garden get stolen by the birds if left too long.
Try putting a couple of heads of elderflower in with the goosegogs while you cook them, this adds a lovely wine aroma.