currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
A gooseberry is a small green fruit that has a sharp taste and is covered with tiny hairs. Hardy fruit bush of the Northern Hemisphere, often placed in the genus Ribes with the currant (or alternatively assigned to the genus Grossularia as its sole member), in the family Saxifragaceae. The spiny bushes bear clusters of greenish to greenish-pink flowers. The tart, oval berries may be prickly, hairy, or smooth. They are eaten ripe and often made into jellies, preserves, pies and other desserts, or wine. Because gooseberry is an alternate host for white-pine blister rust, growing it is illegal in some states where white pine is an important resource
Large tart berries used in jams, jellies, pies and desserts The English and French use this berry to make gooseberry sauce for use with boiled or baked mackerel
Low, edible fruit bearing shrubs, of the genus Ribes Closely related to the currants and, like the currants, a secondary host for White Pine Blister Rust Represented in the North Country by the Northern Gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides) among others Jâbominagawanj in the Ojibwe
Fox Talbot says this is St John's berry, being ripe about St John's Day [This must be John the Baptist, at the end of August, not John the Evangelist, at the beginning of May ] Hence, he says, it is called in Holland Jansbeeren Jans'-beeren, he continues, has been corrupted into Gansbeeren, and Gans is the German for goose This is very ingenious, but gorse (furze) offers a simpler derivation Gorse-berry (the prickly berry) would be like the German stachel-beere (the "prickly berry"), and kraus - beere (the rough gooseberry), from krauen (to scratch) Krausbeere, Gorse-berry, Gooseberry In Scotland it is called grosser (See Bear's Garlick ) To play gooseberry is to go with two lovers for appearance' sake The person "who plays propriety" is expected to hear, see, and say nothing (See Gooseberry Picker ) He played up old gooseberry with me He took great liberties with my property, and greatly abused it; in fact, he made gooseberry fool of it (See below