Esther Copley’s 1827 Recipe for ‘Gooseberry Wine in Imitation of Champaign’
Here’s another C19th gooseberry recipe from Mrs Copley, this time for a tipple to tickle your tastebuds.
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Esther Copley’s 1827 Recipe for ‘Baked Apple or Gooseberry Pudding’
Here’s a quick and easy recipe for a batter pudding, that sounds like a delicious way to make great use of some of your gooseberry crop.
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My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 Edition
It’s my 2023 fruit growing round-up! The highs and the lows, the good and the bad, the weird and the wonderful.
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Mrs Brian Luck’s 1915 Recipe for ‘Gooseberry Cream Without Cream’
This WWI-era Belgian dessert recipe could be a useful way to use up a gooseberry glut.
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Thomas Jenner’s 1653 Recipe for the ‘Best Way to Preserve Goose-Berries’
This probably plagiarised mid-C17th recipe seems to be for gooseberry jam, in all but name.
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W. M.’s 1662 Recipe for ‘Gooseberry Fool’
This C17th version of the classic fool is thickened with butter, sugar and egg yolks rather than the usual milk or cream.
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Robert May’s 1665 Recipe for ‘Preserving Green Fruits’
Here’s a quick seventeenth century guide to preserving green or under-ripe fruit: gooseberries, plums, pippins, peaches and grapes.
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Eliza Smith’s 1729 Recipe for ‘Gooseberry Tansey’
Here’s an eighteenth century drop-scone pancake type recipe to help you use up some of your gooseberry glut.
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John Smith, on Making Gooseberry, Apple or Rhubarb Cream
Here’s a fool-proof dish of stewed fruit, sugar, cream and eggs from a nineteenth century collection of veggie recipes.
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Esther Copley on Making Gooseberry or Apple Fool
Here’s a deliciously simple recipe for making a classic fruit and cream dessert that you’d be foolish not to try yourself.
