Cape Gooseberries

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Elaine
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Morning everyone. My three Cape Gooseberry plants are doing really well in the greenhouse and are festooned with fruits, so it looks like a bumper crop. So....apart from eating them until they come out of our ears, :shock: has anyone out there got any recipes or suggestions please? Can you make jam with them? There is no mention of them in my "jam making Bible" and I have no idea whether they would need pectin and/or acid.

I thought I would ask you good folks before I start trawling the Internet as I prefer books (still) and personal recommendations any day! :D
Cheers!
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Elaine if kept in a cool frost proof place cape gooseberries will keep in their paper cases for 3 - 4 weeks. You can make jam with them, and this link says they have a high pectin content.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/cape-gooseberry.html
They are ripe when their cases go dry and papery, and they start dropping off the plants, good keeping quality and useful easy to grow plant.
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