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Well i've just top and tailed 8lbs of goosegogs, i must have given the same away and still have pounds left on my bushes, last year when i inherited them on my allotment i ran out of things to do with them, wine , pies ,jams and jellies, i don't know if there are any ishers local to me as i still have loads to use, if you are close to me, i live near redcar you are more than welcome to pop along for some,
russ

A few years ago we had the same problem, they strip the bushes bare dont they

Goosegog?

Otherwise knows as gooseberries in this country!

Frozen thunderbolt - haven't you heard of a Chinese Goosegog? They are abundant in your country!!!

(kiwi fruit - chinese gooseberries).

Ahh - kiwifruit u mean - brown furry skin green interior! lol

Also confused with cape gooseberries ( cape cherries) and gooseberries - the green hairless kind that have spiny bushes

Oh isn't the English language so wonderfully confusing - it's not really surprising it's so hard to learn a foreign one when you've got your own still to learn in order to converse with Americans, Kiwis and Aussies.... well and even that lot 'up north' in England, not to mention the Scots, Welsh and Irish!

eeee pet, ower lass went to the foot of our stairs, just ta see if thas is fair te middllin befor vittles are ready.................................................

Millymollymandy wrote:when you've got your own still to learn in order to converse with Americans, Kiwis and Aussies....

Shouldn't that be Americans, Chinese goosegogs and Aussies?

Or even Septic Tanks (Yanks) and ....

Apologies to Americans but it's not me who made up Cockney rhyming slang!

I'm so envious of you having gooseberries, I love them in pies and tarts. That's going to be the next thing on my to buy list now!

Shame your so far away, i can't seem to give enough away

When I worked in the hotel kitchen, my favourite pudding was a gooseberry crumble with a kind of flapjack topping instead of normal crumble.... Delicious!

Isn't it late for goosegogs? Mine start to fall off the bushes in May so I pick them then. (The holes in my fingers have only just healed )
I noticed my allotment neighbour still has his to pick but assimed they were a dessert type as they are as red as grapes.

Buy yep, what a good year for gooseberries- proper gooseberries that is not the big hairy ones

frozenthunderbolt wrote:Ahh - kiwifruit u mean - brown furry skin green interior! lol

Also confused with cape gooseberries ( cape cherries) and gooseberries - the green hairless kind that have spiny bushes

over here kiwi fruits are different to goosberries.

http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/images/go ... nvicta.jpg

these are gooseberries over in england.
On the telly t'other night Valentine warner a new chef that looks like a young back to the future doctor made a goosberry sweet. cook some gooseberries with sugar and water til slft but still most in shape. Add two egg yolks and mix in. Use the egg whites and icing sugar to make a merangue then put the goosberry mix in an ovenproof bowl top with the merangue mix and bake for 20 mins in a medium oven...

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