Goosegogging

[Bbbananas]

Maybe it's just Lincolnshire, or maybe my unobservance - but why don't we seem to have many gooseberries around any more? When we were early teenagers (ok, maybe about 35 years ago...) we used to go 'goosegogging' - being pricked half to death by all the thorns, but gooseberries were plentiful so it seemed.

[kerriesmum]

I have not has gooseberries for years. My grandmother used to make beautiful gooseberry tarts.

[Bbbananas]

Mmmm - gooseberry & strawberry pie. M&S used to make a gorgeous pie. My mum always used to do gooseberry fool - tasted divine but looked like something next door's cat had sicked up ;-(

[WELSHYORKIE]

Mam used to have gooseberry bushes down the side of her house. As kids we used to look to see if their were any babies underneath cos that's where the stork used to leave them!!!!! (NO I am not on medication)

[Bbbananas]

Bless ya. And I bet you still believe in the tooth fairy? x

[WELSHYORKIE]

Why isn't there one? Next you'll be telling me there's no Santa - ha ha come off it Sal - you can't fool an old fool, can you???

[Bbbananas]

Dunno - I often used to fool my ex....

[WELSHYORKIE]

tut tut, Sal - i would ask more but i'm a gentleman - lol

[carmalee]

never ate gooseberries for years cos as a child I ate a bushful of half ripe ones and boy was I ill! - On the day we moved to a new house, Mum sent us out in the orchard to play and we found this bush and had a feast. After fifty odd years |I now eat them again.

[thugulike]

I have several recipes for main courses which need gooseberries. I have grown them for years. Gooseberry puree with roast pork instead of apple sauce is greatand it works with duck too. I also make a pork, fennel and gooseberry strogonoff which is delish. Also use them in pies and crumbles. They freeze very well, I pack them in plastic boxes which means I can just take out what I need.

[Bbbananas]

Gooseberry puree with pork or duck sounds fab.

[Booldawg]

my parents still grow loads of them and have trouble even giving them away. tbh I dont like anything remotley gooseberryish.

[mccfluff]

i was told when i was a kids that the hairs growing out of them were real hairs and at night the goosberries animated into little folk

no way am i eating a gooseberry ever

[ChuckFickens]

Fluff, it might be easier and save time if you just done us all a list of the things you will eat :)

[mike11111]

They seem to have gone out of fashion. They were ubiquitous when I was a kid, so much so that greengrocers never bothered to sell them as they were freely available ripe for the picking. Was never very fond myself, needed loads of sugar to make them palatable. Another thing rarely seen these days is rhubarb, again at one time everywhere. I can remember being given sticks of rhubarb with a little twisted paper cornet filled with sugar to dip it into, with the injunction, "Now go out and play and don't come back till teatime. Mammy's busy!"

[rinkins]

Not even gooseberry jelly fluffs?

[ChuckFickens]

hmmm, gooseberry jelly done in a mushroom shaped jelly mould :-p

[mccfluff]

noooo it might be a little gooseberries person all mushed up and jellified, you lot are rotten

surprisingly chuck i do eat most things, basically wrap it in pastry or dip it in chocolate and i'll try it,

[mccfluff]

blurgh

Mike - rhubarb is everywhere!