Where to buy gooseberries in Dublin?

luckat

Anyone know? There seems to be a gooseberry famine.

My father used to catch mackerel (or we'd catch them for him) and then make a sour gooseberry sauce and marinade the mackerel in it overnight, then cook them for breakfast. Yum.

Also goosegog tart yum, also gooseberry jam yum.

Blub2k4

I've just bought me a sea fishing rig and expect to catch a lot of mackerel over the next while, any chance you could give me the recipe?
I saw gooseberries at the temple bar market on Saturdays, they wont be cheap.

luckat

Hmm, just have to get some gooseberry bushes then, they grow like weeds.

As far as I remember, my father just put the washed gooseberries into a pot with a tiny amount of sugar and a tiny bit of water - enough that they wouldn't catch on the bottom of the pot before they started oozing liquid - then cooked them gently until they dissolved into a soft, bitter, delicious mush.

There should be enough sugar that they're just faintly sweet, but not anything like as sweet as jam, say.

pajos55

They have them in Fallon & Byrne on exchequer st, also fruit shop on Wexford St, can't remember what it's called but near Solas.

They are indeed very yum.

luckat

Oh, thanks, Pajo! I've been meaning to go to Fallon & Byrnes, where I also heard there were (ymmm) broad beans. And the shop near Solas is excellent - they often have greengages in season.

NewFrockTuesday

Good Earth at the end of the Malahide Road have them sitting on the counter - they seem to be hand picked as well - they are very "rustic" looking!

luckat

Is that the Brams end of Malahide Road or the other end?

Saruman

Well i discovered in the garden of the house i bought last year we have a black gooseberyr bush! Had loads of fruit.. unfortunatly every one of them is gone now... either they fell off or birds got them.. i harvested what i could get of the blackcurrents

NewFrockTuesday

Is that the Brams end of Malahide Road or the other end?

Its right around the corner from Brams. Its open fronted. Facing the casino.

replytohere2004

pajos55 wrote:

They have them in Fallon & Byrne on exchequer st, also fruit shop on Wexford St, can't remember what it's called but near Solas.

Evergreen, near the lights, city end of Wexford St.

Good shop - plenty of different fruits and veg.

jdivision

Superquinn

wingnut

If you passing by Limerick they do them very reasonable in at the potato market on Saturdays.

petes

Growing them is easy enough. My dad used have about six or seven bushes. I wouldn't eat them when ripe. They had to be sour as fook!!