After making Sarah Raven’s wonderful soft set Apricot jam earlier in the year I have been playing about with the ‘soft set’ method on other jams. Our goosberry bushes have been over abundant this year so it seems like a good time to try it out on them. Ingredients: 1kg Gooseberries – topped and tailed…
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Recipe : Gooseberry and Raspberry jam
This was a bit of an accident to be honest, though I suspect someone has written about it before. I was making gooseberry jam and needing to make up the weight added a couple of handfuls of handy home grown rasps. Perfect addition as it turned the pink jam a brilliant jewel like red. Ingredients:…
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Recipe : Gooseberry & Strawberry tart
Strawberries it seems go with everything, at the early end of it a friend introduced me to a Strawberry and rhubarb tart along with strawberry and rhubarb jam , both excellent combinations and this version with gooseberries instead of rhubarb is another new to me excellent combination. The heady sweetness of ripe Strawberries goes very…
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Recipe: Gooseberry and Elderflower fool
Gooseberries and elderflower are good companions, not least because they are out in the world at the same time. We have had a bumper crop of berries this year, slightly over 12kg so far, from 4 well established bushes and finding things to do with the berries other than freezing them has become the challenge…
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Recipe: Gooseberry crumble
This is first in a short series of gooseberry recipes. There’s a glut, pretty much every year and I sometimes need to be reminded of what to do with the additional fruit. If you have recipe favorites do share them in the comments below, I can never have too many ideas. My mother made this…
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