just tryed this and it works !

[carlseawolf]

If you want a cherry pie but have no cherries -

Mix and cook equal parts blackberries and gooseberries together in a pan and strain the juice to remove pips and it tastes like cherries.

sweeten to taste

[nikkijy]

Thanks, was wondering what to do with my very small crop of gooseberrys.

[Rhona]

Argh! blackbirds have just stripped our small but perfect crop of gooseberries! Would have tried it otherwise. Have some whitecurrants to pick today - maybe they would work?

[Seahorse]

Interesting! I have 1000s of blackberries (literally, about a 100m stretch of bushes bordering my lottie) but I'm not all that keen on them. I'll give them a try with gooseberries

[carlseawolf]

i tryed this as a sorbert recipe to use up the last of the fruit and the taste was quite close to those cherry pies you get in supermarkets.