[debih]

Our red currant and gooseberry bushes have been extremely productive this year.  So far I have picked 10 kilos from each and the branches are still heaving with fruit.

I usually make redcurrant jelly and a gooseberry and elderflower jam but I am looking for other things to make with them as well.

Any ideas will be gratefully recieved.

[Janeymiddlewife]

BBC good food recipe, have only made sorbet with strawberries & vodka, but of the link works, I 'm sure you could combine rasperries & redcurrants, but not sure how long it would keep for

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2206/redcurrant-sorbet

Summer pudding, Rumtopf ? spelling - basically gin or vodka infused with the berries, bit like sloe gin?

http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/843-redcurrant-and-raspberry-cordial.html

For starters, anyway?

[Tenhens]

My OH made some gooseberry and kiwi jam the other day, not only does it look interesting - little black bits against the green ,it has quite in interesting taste.

[sunshineband]

Gooseberry pavlova is gorgeous 

and decorated with af few redcurrants would look sublime, too 

[boosmummy]

the snails have eaten all my gooseberries. an entire 2 bushes!!

[sunshineband]

I suspect goosberry sawfly caterpillars, not snails.


Have a look around and you might well find some.

[boosmummy]

I suspect goosberry sawfly caterpillars, not snails.


Have a look around and you might well find some.

hmm, they have shells on their backs? either way they've eaten the entire lot bar two!!

[Spana]

Squirrels are eating my gooseberries   Little devils suck out the middles and leave the empty skins on the ground.

My bushes have also been deleaved by saw flies