red gooseberries

[hamsterqueen]

I have got a good crop of dessert red gooseberries this year (for past 3 years I;ve had about 3!)


any ideas for them?

i have been eating them straight off the bush, but fancied actually 'doing something' with them. They are beautifully sweet

[Nicos]

ooo....you lucky thing!
I had a red spike -free one a few years ago and it died- and I replaced it with the same variety in a different spot- and that one died!

I'd just stew them down and serve with ice cream!!!

It'd make nice ice-cream too- I've added just the left over juice from stewing and it flavours the ice-cream nicely ( pink would be even prettier!)
Have you got an ice-cream maker??..if not- what an excuse to get one!!!

[Dottie]

I'm a great smoothie fan, so enjoyed them for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and supper.

I harvested mine at the same time as the summer raspberries, so both fruits added, porridge oats, a little bran and water. Yum yum.

Green gooseberries you can add kiwi fruit and apple juice.

I tend to add porridge oats at whatever time of day I make a smoothie, in an attempt to slow down/water down the natural sugars going into the blood stream.

[Hilary B]

Pies, crumbles, stewed (with cream, ice-cream or custard), or a favourite of my family (more often made with apple or rhubarb, but works well with gooseberries too) baked/steamed sponge pudding. Just put the lightly stewed fruit in the base of the pudding dish, add victoria-sponge mixture, and bake or steam as preferred. The baked one is better on hot days as it can be eaten cold. My family always referred to it as 'gooseberry cakey-thing'.

If you have got masses, you might like to make a sauce and freeze it for the original purpose, to serve with roast goose.........

[Beckybex]

I do a 'steamed' pudding too, except I cook it in the microwave. In a pudding basin as normal but with cling film over the top. My fave tho is gooseberry fool. Add stewed fruit to equal parts custard and lightly whipped cream, or can use greek youghurt. I also add a splosh of elderflower cordial sometimes. Gooseberries freeze really well too...

[zazen999]

I only grow gooseberries for making gooseberry jelly; this year on it's first year I made gooseberry, rhubard, rasp and strawb jelly.....just combined everything we had - stewed it down and strained it. Then mixed with the same volume of sugar and some lemon juice and boiled until it reached setting point and then bunged it in hot sterilised kilner jars [the little ones].

I remember gooseberry jelly from being a kid and always wanted it; now I've got it. I'm happy

It's blommin lovely.

[ardroil]

ive made sorbet with mine, it was scrummy

[burnie]

Goosegogs ice cream didn't work for me,but with strawberries in a crumble is what I have for my pudding tonight(just off to have it with Raspberry ripple ice cream)

[hamsterqueen]

ooh, such lovely ideas.

Not sure which to choose now!

Thank you!

[Scottishnewbie]

Last week I found a red gooseberry bush that still had a few berries on it, so I picked what I could and then made rhubarb (from my frozen stock) and red gooseberry relish. Big John and I had some with our quiche the other night and it was pretty amazing! Sadly only made a few jars this year but it will definately be on our "to make" list for next year.