Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Big fat juicy gooseberries
When I was a kid my ma used to buy big fat juicy gooseberries from the greengrocer's. You'd bite the end off and suck out the sweet insides. Yummy! I don't see them any more. Does anyone know where I can get any?
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Permalink Reply by Kit on
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Also lush when topped, tailed, simmered down in a little sugar and water, chilled and mixed into Greek yoghurt. YUM!!! Wonder if posh Crouch End greengrocer near the Clock Tower sells them?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Ton Norrington says on The Guardian that he's a Gooseberry Fool.
Searching around on Google, every time I put in Big Gooseberries or Big Fat Gooseberries, I'm given this post. Some help! The best I could come up with was a listing of PYO places many of which seem to do Gooseberries, but unsurprisingly they're all outside London. (Perhaps we ought to organise an emergency run on behalf of Harringay......)
The BBC tells us:
Gooseberries come in two forms. The smaller, sharp, green gooseberries are the ones to cook while, later in the season, big, fat translucent gold-green or red gooseberries can be sweet and juicy.
So perhaps I just need patience. I can wait. I can, honest. But where oh where do I find them locally when the time is right?
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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Searching online for gooseberry sellers and found this http://www.mygineration.co.uk/fruit%20liqueurs/gooseberry-liqueur/g... - Alcoholic Gooseberry liqueur! Plenty of places that sell the bushes but no luck yet with the berries.
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Hartleys do Gooseberries in syrup for 71p (would do for jam/fool i should think).
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Permalink Reply by Katy Mendes on
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Am off to the wilds of Northumberland soon - will bring back as many as I can pick/carry :)
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Permalink Reply by Alison on
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I want to join the gooseberry fan club. I'm going to look in Crouch End and report back if found. Sometimes Wood Green shopping city greengrocer has odd things, I suppose if they get them cheap. I shall look there when I go next as well.
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Looks like the politicians missed a trick. If someone had run on a "Gooseberries for all" policy, it would have been a landslide.
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Permalink Reply by JeremyS on
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I'm so impressed. Thanks very much for all the interest. Now I know where to come when I'm suffering gooseberry withdrawal.
Like the sound of the Northumberland of Crouch End fruits.
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How's this for big fat and juicy:
Seems like gooseberry clubs were something of an obsession in the North in times gone by.
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They still are, and in honour of my grandad, dad and northern allotments, the first thing I planted in my Harringey garden was a gooseberry bush and rhubarb.
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The Perry Court Farm stand at the farmers market in Islington (Sundays 10-2pm: http://lfm.org.uk/markets/islington/ ) has both green and reddish-purple gooseberries every summer.
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