I worry about gooseberries

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Aibu

My gran used to make loverly gooseberry jam!

Growing them - red ones and green ones. I may get 3 this year . But next year.... yum

My cousin tied herself in knots trying to make gooseberry jam for her husband. She couldn't get it to go pink like the one her late MIL had made. She resorted to using food colouring. It was very good jam though.
She didn't take it well when I told her that her MIL had probably used red gooseberries!

YANBU.

I am scared of the dimpled end of a banana, so I can sympathise

I remember gooseberries from the greengrocer when I was a kid a million years ago and they were hard sour green bullets. Dessert gooseberries are very different.

I love them so much that I grow my own.

I love gooseberries.

Fucking bastard evil gooseberry sawfly, die scum, die!

My grandfather grew gooseberries and my grandmother turned them into a dessert we called 'grutzer' (they were German). It was like a gooseberry fool. For that reason alone I will always look fondly upon gooseberries.

@mikado1 I say more of a 'gzberry'

Please don’t worry OP, they’re very much wanted here. I have to fight DH for them because he just wants to eat them straight off the bushes (weirdo), whereas I would prefer to make them into a more sophisticated dessert of some sort.

Technically they belong to him, but I managed to wrest enough from him last year to make a fool

This year, I was wondering whether I could pilfer enough to make jam, but I don’t have a recipe. Anyone got a good one?

All we need is someone like jamie Oliver or someone to bring out a gooseberry pasta (?) recipe or something and you won't be able to buy one for love nor money.... delia did it with cranberries for those old enough to remember!

Love goosegogs. But to taste them at their best, you have to grow them yourself and wait until they're really, really soft and almost squishy, when they're sweet and delicious. Unripe goosies are very sad indeed, so if if you've only ever come across those, then you have every right to worry about them and you are therefore NBU.

Oooh Stachelbeergruetze useyourimagination lecker

Monkee - I do indeed remember the Great Delia-Induced Cranberry Shortage. Those were dark times.

I ate gooseberry crumble for my dinner tonight! You are most definitely, without any shadow of a doubt, being unreasonable!

I picked the fruits yesterday 😀

I feel the same about rhubarb op , so unloved and misunderstood

Sparklingbrook, I love gooseberry jam, but your picture did remind me somewhat of a testicle without the scrotum. Now I like testes, but not in jam. Never in jam.

I am very fond of gooseberries.... my DM always told me I was actually found under a gooseberry bush .

@Igneococcus - YES! That was it. thank you so much, I can now go and make it for myself :)

Dark because there was bugger all else to do then except watch Delia!

If gooseberries die out then all babies will have to be conceived by stork, rather than by gooseberry bush, which could be problematic if avian flu took hold.

My gooseberry patches are thriving. Both red and green.

I feel the same about rhubarb op , so unloved and misunderstood

Not here, we all love rhubarb.
Just took a rhubarb meringue cake out of the oven for work tomorrow. Its my colleague's birthday today.

Lots of recipes online useyourimagination. There is also rote Gruetze which is like the filling of an English summer pudding.

I love them. They're always welcome in my house.