Gooseberry Pie.

[K5lwq]

When I was growing up on the farm we had a great neighbor that moved to Mississippi from Indiana to farm. They introduced me to Gooseberry pie and I just loved those things. My very Southern wife decided out of the blue to make me one this afternoon. Kind of scared to try it because she doesn’t know anything about a Gooseberry but it does look good. I will give it a go once it cools down.

 

[Molalla1]

Damn looks good lad! Give er a try . . .

 

[Molalla1]

Damn looks good lad! Give er a try . . .

She even weaved the top crust!

 

[lman]

Hope she put a lot of sugar in it.

 

[K5lwq]

Hope she put a lot of sugar in it.

You and me both!

 

[Molalla1]

You and me both!

Well, I (and some others) will want a report . . .

 

[Molalla1]

Well, I (and some others) will want a report . . .

Be honest . . . does she read our TBN?

 

[K5lwq]

Be honest . . . does she read our TBN?

She has only a few post I have shared with her. But if I need to be honest then she definitely is a great cook! She does cooking segments on our local TV station. I will post a link to some of her segments. She is known as Mama Steph.

Main Dish

www.kltv.com

 

[K5lwq]

Well it was not too bad. She could have used a little more sugar but still was pretty good. Maybe with more practice she will get it down.

 

[Oaktree]

Hope she put a lot of sugar in it.

Years ago when my cooking skills were much less than now someone gave me some shredded rhubarb. Figured I use it to make a pie. Didn't realize how much sugar you needed to add to make it edible! Lesson learned!!!

I remember my great-grandmother having a gooseberry bush when I was a kid. Don't think I've ever seen one since, lot of people have never even heard of them.

 

[Torvy]

Rhubarb is something II truly miss about the North. Little else. I prefer mine on the tart side, but even then it needs a bit of sugar.

May have to find my way over to Mineola and try some of that Gooseberry. Yum!

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

No body in the family has tried a gooseberry pie since my Grandmother died about forty years ago. All the kids still make her gooseberry jello for the holidays.

One of the sisters did a raspberry rhubarb pie. And I tried making Grandmas caramel apple pie, this Thanks Giving. It was a good enough apple pie. But it definitely didn’t form much of the caramel..

My sisters tried getting both Grandma, and my mom, to write down the recipes before they died, but it never happened. So, we are trying to recover the recipes, from memories of watching them cook.

I can get close on most of the recipes, but the caramel things keep evading me. It would help if I wasn’t diabetic, and could experiment more.. but, I think just looking at one of them would spike my blood sugar.

 

[K5lwq]

Rhubarb is something II truly miss about the North. Little else. I prefer mine on the tart side, but even then it needs a bit of sugar.

May have to find my way over to Mineola and try some of that Gooseberry. Yum!

You are welcome anytime but you may want to wait for a couple more versions. It is a good pie though just not quite the way my neighbor could make them. Funny thing is my wife actually got to know them and had a chance to try her pie but was not interested when she was young. It was strange to her back then.

 

[cqaigy2]

My mom love rhubarb pie, i was ok with it, but liked it a little tart. Goose berry is pretty good though. Blackberries around here are pretty good and make a good pie as well. Then of course apple pie, cherry pie, and.... i guess i like pie.

 

[scootr]

I don't think you should try it. It might be awful
Let me try it for you

 

[Oaktree]

Blackberries around here are pretty good and make a good pie as well.

I spent a couple years in the PNW in the mid 70s and I was amazed at how many blackberries there were, even in the suburban area where I lived. Every vacant lot was full of them...so thick that you could fill a pail without moving much. Nothing like that around here, we have them but nowhere near that abundant.

 

[polo1665]

I remember as a kid my dad had me help him pick gooseberries and elderberries. No pie though. He made wine out of them.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

I spent a couple years in the PNW in the mid 70s and I was amazed at how many blackberries there were, even in the suburban area where I lived. Every vacant lot was full of them...so thick that you could fill a pail without moving much. Nothing like that around here, we have them but nowhere near that abundant.

Technically it is illegal for the plant and seed companies to ship raspberries or blackberries to Idaho, because in some areas of he state they readily become nuisance weeds.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

LOVE Gooseberries but I have only eaten them is other countries like India and Colombia. I have never seen them in the US.
Pie looks delicious!