RED GOOSEBERRIES

[gwynleg]

Does anyone have any recipes for red (sweet) goooseberries please? Particularly anything I can freeze or  preserve? As they are sweet can I adjust the sugar to make jam or jelly?
Thanks

[gwynleg]

[luckycharlie]

  I've just made 10lb of red gooseberry jam. I did use the special preserving sugar  used 10lb sugar to 10lb fruit didn't add any water and it's delisous!!


x Chas

[PurpleHeather]

RED gooseberries are supposed to be so sweet (green ones are a tad sour for most people) that they can be eaten raw. Often sold as 'dessert gooseberry bushes'.

I know people who love sour fruit and they enjoy green and red gooseberries. Black currants straight from the bush

Baked unsweetened rhubarb and pickled onions straight into full strength malt vinegar.

Too strong for most of us.

Any recipe for gooseberries works with red ones too.

Gooseberries make excellent jam because of the natural pectin content in them and can be mixed with other fruits which do not have the pectin content.

Nothing wrong with mixing fruits when making jam. 

Purists might say otherwise but these days we use what we have and  create new tastes.

Freeze any surplus and wait for the apples and pears if you have any available to you.

Then make a concoction of your own.

Do not be afraid. If you like the flavours you should enjoy the results.

Gooseberries also make a good base for mint jelly to serve with lamb. You strain the goosberry and sugar then add vinegar and chopped mint.

In olden times people kept their worn out linen and cotton fabrics to use.

One use was for straining fruit to produce a jelly.

The fabric was boiled to remove any germs and things first.

There are cheap plastic gloves too to wear whilst engaging on the processes It can get very sticky.

Have fun with cooking. It may not work out but keep trying.

[antipodes]

I only grow red ones because the nursery got them mixed up! Yes you can eat them raw, but I rather like them in crumble, mixed with apple yum. Last year I made them into jam with rasperries and that was very nice indeed. They are sweet but still fairly tangy.  Any type of cooked red fruit concoction, you can use them with. I even made chutney out of them one year with onions and apple and a bit of tomato and peppers, that was really good actually and quite an astonishing colour!

[Digeroo]

Love them yum.  Also like rhubarb with only a small splash of apple juice.  I can eat lemons straight.  Someone once bet me I could not eat a whole lemon.  I love raw blackcurrants.  So far not enough to get further than a few inches from the bush

[Gadget]

Love them yum.  Also like rhubarb with only a small splash of apple juice.  I can eat lemons straight.  Someone once bet me I could not eat a whole lemon.  I love raw blackcurrants.  So far not enough to get further than a few inches from the bush

Snap, I love all things sour to, used to get told off as a child for eating the bramley apples and gooseberries.

The red ones do make a very nice gooseberry fool.  :)