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Nearly bled to death harvesting 2lbs of the heavily defended little bastards and I don’t even like them.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:47 am
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Fool!


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:48 am
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What's the point? Gooseberry fool.

It's awesome.


 
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😆


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:49 am
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rhubarb and gooseberry crumble (with custard) is the food of the gods.

stupid question: you are picking them ripe aren't you? (they should be yellow-ish)


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:49 am
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Fool, crumble, pie, yoghurt.

Whomever you picked that 2lb for is a lucky girl/guy.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:50 am
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+1 gooseberry crumble with custard. Nom nom nom


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:53 am
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They are ripe. I've got red ones although it could be all the blood.

Looks like i'll get another couple of lbs off in a couple of weeks too. :-/


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 10:54 am
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Jam!!!!!!! end of discussion. (or vodka?)

Got some rasps a couple of days ago, apart from stuffing my face, making pudding and sticking some in freezer for jam making, they ended up thus:

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Posted : 12/08/2013 11:10 am
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For beer innit


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 11:37 am
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Jam, or a sauce to go with mackerel.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 11:55 am
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@onehundredthidiot - I think you need to change your jame making technique 😉

It's all about goosberry cobbler in my mind.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 11:57 am
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or a sauce to go with mackerel

Ooh, tell me more, tell me more!

I like the sound of this conoction.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 11:57 am
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they make the finest jam known to man


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 11:59 am
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Ooh, tell me more, tell me more!

I like the sound of this conoction.

Simmer the gooseberries with a little butter and sugar, keep going until the sauce thickens.

Brush the mackerel fillets with some oil and seasoning, grill under a high heat with the skin side up. They will need 5 minutes at absolute most.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 12:01 pm
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they make the finest jam known to man

Even nicer if you add a bit of elderflower. It's too late for fresh flowers now but you could use cordial.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 12:02 pm
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My aunty makes me Strawberry and goosberry Jam

I'd be happy with just gooseberry

Also Gooseberry tart from from Oddies in Nelson, almost makes it worth the trip home


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 12:17 pm
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What's the point of gooseberries?

Eh?

EH?

KILL THE HERETIC!

I love gooseberries, me. Crumble, jam, but don't make chutney. It's a waste of gooseberries.

Go-ose-berr-ies: (latin) "Food of the gods"


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 12:22 pm
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ransos, that sounds excellent!


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 12:23 pm
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Feking orrable sour spikey gew.

You need 44kgs of unrefined sugar for 2grms of Goosegogs just, just to make them a viable alternative to chicken spew.

Best of luck, take some weed killer along next time and decimate the bush 😉


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 1:10 pm
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Can you not ferment them into some crude form of alcohol (that could potentially make you go blind) you could then sell to Russians?


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 1:13 pm
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My great great great great grandfather (1742 to 1836) had his eye put out by a gooseberry bush.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 1:18 pm
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KILL THE HERETIC

No, just make him pick another 10 lbs of gooseberries for the more discerning folk on this thread. He'll eventually bleed out, but it's for the common good.

🙂


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 1:22 pm
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rhubarb [s]and gooseberry[/s] crumble (with custard) is the food of the gods.
really dislike the G-berry, spent too much time as a kid picking 'em and never really liked the taste anyway. Could just about eat my mum's gooseberry crumble but when there are so many other nicer things to make crumble with, why bother with them little hairy difficult to pick buggers?


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 1:36 pm
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For padding out other, better tasting fruit. So raspberry jam can be twice as much raspberry and gooseberry jam. And so on


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 2:02 pm
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What nicko said.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 3:51 pm
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One word, crumble


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 4:07 pm
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rhubarb and gooseberry crumble (with [s]custard[/s] clotted cream) is the food of the gods.

FTFY


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 4:24 pm
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Sadly pigeons have eaten most of mine that are the allotment, protective netting is on the agenda for next year!


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 4:24 pm
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I've got some great sweet gooseberries in the garden.....

Mine were ripe ages ago though, and had to pick them before the dogs ate them all.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 4:34 pm
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I quite like them freshly picked. Must try them with marscapone.

Crumble and jam are good too though.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 4:41 pm
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What?
No gooseberries = no gooseberry bushes = no babies
Do you want to be responsible for our extinction?

Lovely raw by the bag full.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 4:53 pm
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Ah but my rasps are swimming in vodka and will eventually be used for hogmanay crannachan.


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 5:11 pm
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Inject them with vodka and then you can eat raw gooseberries on class and gradually get pissed. The only way to get through O Level physics lessons


 
Posted : 12/08/2013 6:15 pm

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