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Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 7:57 pm Post subject:

Wentworth wrote:

Gooseberry and mustard seed pickle with a bit of heat here this week if the gooseberries are ready. I doubt they're far off.

Recipe?

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 8:17 pm Post subject:
I'll fish it out this week and post it. This recipe is why we grow gooseberry.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 9:12 pm Post subject:
Mine aren't ripe yet and I am usually topping and tailing them in fron of Wimbledon.

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 9:20 pm Post subject:

Wentworth wrote:

I'll fish it out this week and post it. This recipe is why we grow gooseberry.

Thank you, I shall look forward to it. Is it nice and sharp? Not that keen on sweet pickles and chutneys.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 13 10:23 pm Post subject:
Nothing like a gooseberry fool.

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 6:46 am Post subject:

Bebo wrote:

Wentworth wrote:

I'll fish it out this week and post it. This recipe is why we grow gooseberry.

Thank you, I shall look forward to it. Is it nice and sharp? Not that keen on sweet pickles and chutneys.

Yes, not a sweet pickle, very savoury with good heat.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 7:11 am Post subject:
I have gooseberries waiting!

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 10:24 am Post subject:
Don`t anyone make Good Old Gooseberry Tart anymore,with that nice fattening pastry.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 10:28 am Post subject:
Again: Yum. I do a one-crust pie with the pastry just sort of bundled up around the fruit.

Mithril

Joined: 22 Jul 2011
Posts: 1755
Location: wessex

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 10:35 am Post subject:
I've only got a handful this year We usually make gooseberry fool. The pickle does sound good.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 10:40 am Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Don`t anyone make Good Old Gooseberry Tart anymore,with that nice fattening pastry.

Yes!

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 6:21 pm Post subject:

Wentworth wrote:

I'll fish it out this week and post it. This recipe is why we grow gooseberry.

I found the recipe on your blog.
Just bottled my first batch,it smells yum.

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 8:12 pm Post subject:

gardening-girl wrote:

Wentworth wrote:

I'll fish it out this week and post it. This recipe is why we grow gooseberry.

I found the recipe on your blog.
Just bottled my first batch,it smells yum.

Here it is, I'd forgotten it was on there. Thanks for the reminder.

Gooseberry and Mustard Seed Pickle

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 13 8:21 pm Post subject:
Cheers. I'll have a bash at that over the weekend. Been dealing with the strawberry glut today.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46235
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 13 11:56 am Post subject:
for fruit leather very ripe ones and a sieve are good ace as a stuffing for fish and fowl good in combination fruit wines or as a single fruit for dry white and champagne style and the bushes are a great security barrier if close planted

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