CAPE GOOSEBERRIES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 13

CAPE GOOSEBERRIES

popular every year. They combine well with apples both as a dessert and in preserves, Pineapples also go well with cape gooseberries; and lemon juice added to them in a pie makes a really wonderful dessert. Try these suggestions. Cape Gooseberry Pie Cook sufficient cape gooseberries in water with sugar to taste, and the juice of a lemon. This may be done in a saucepan; or in a covered dish in the oven, which is better. When nearly cooked, add about half as much sliced apple, and cook a few minutes longer. Cover with good pastry-puff or short-bake a nice brown, and serve hot or cold. Cape Gooseberry and Apple Jam Four and a-half pounds shelled cape gooseberries to 114lb. green apples. Mince or grate apples. Put 1 tablespoon butter in saucepan, and all the fruit. Crush gooseberries, and if not enough juice to start with add 2 tablespoons water. Allow pound for pound of sugar, when soft, stir till dissolved, and cook till it will set. Cape Gooseberry Conserve Four pounds apples, 8 large cups water, and 2lb. cape gooseberries. Boil the cut-up apples in water till soft. Strain through jelly bag all night. Next day cook berries in that juice until soft -then add cup for cup of sugar, stir till dissolved, and boil till it will set. Cape Gooseberry Chutney Two and a-quarter pounds berries, pricked, 341lb. onions, 4 pint vinegar, 100z. brown sugar, 60z. seedless raisins, 1 level teaspoon ground ginger, 2 level teaspoons salt, 42 teaspoon cayenne. Put all prepared ingredients into a pan with sugar, ginger, vinegar, salt and cayenne. Cook gently, keeping well stirred until sugar is dissolved. Then boil gently for % hour, Cape Gooseberry, Passion Fruit and Melon Jam Six pounds melon, 1141b. cape gooseberries, 16 passion fruit, 6lb. sugar. Cut melon into blocks, and shell gooseberries. Cover with sugar, stand 24 hours. Boil 2 to 3 hours. Put passion fruit in when jam boils. ~- ° wa ~ Wee CHINESE GOOSEBERRIES HESE do very well in'New Zealand, especially around Auckland. They are very delicate and delicious eaten plain -just cult in halves like passion fruit and scooped out with an afternoon teaspoon, Or they may be peeled and cut in slices for fruit salad, Notice the pretty formation of the slices. A Link in the Daisy Chain worked out this Jam Recipe. I tasted it and found it delicious:-Cut the gooseberries in half and scoop out the pulp. Have the bottom of the saucepan barely covered with half water and half lemon juice, put in the pulp, and boil till cooked. Then add 34 cup sugar to each cup of pulp. The grated rind of a lemon may also be added. Boil till it GOOSEBERRIES are more

will set when tested. Orange may be substituted for lemon. Chinese Gooseberry Chutney Twelve Chinese gooseberries peeled and cut up, 3 medium-sized onions grated, 1 large banana cut up, 2 lemons peeled and cut into chunks, 1 small cup sultanas or raisins, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 44lb. preserved ginger (optional), 1 large cup brown sugar, 1 dessertspoon salt (a little less), 1% teaspoon pepper, 1 large cup vinegar. Put all into saucepan, just cover with vinegar, and simmer about 1142 hours. Mash with potato masher (do not strain through colander). When cool, bottle:-and cork well.