Paid a visit to my container garden this morning early.. wet and miserable out there, but the little darlings are fruiting away happily. Can't wait - memories of Cape Gooseberry jam with cream piled lavishly on pikelets...yum!
At last someone else who's familiar with Cape Gooseberry jam. It is THE best jam on earth. My childhood memories of it are on white bread from the hot bread shop, cut into small shapes by my aunt as part of my holiday breakfast in bed. She made her jam from the Cape Gooseberries my great-uncle grew in New Plymouth. I've been growing them for the last 20 years or so, just so I can make jam - and that's a bit of a mission in Dunedin.
Fantastic Bronwyn. I've found them for sale (at a rather high price...) at Bhana Brothers in Ponsonby Road but nowhere else. My last great experience with them was finding them wild while camping at Waihau Bay on the East Cape, cooking them up into jam in a billy over the barbeque one summer and serving then on fresh pikelets (also barbequed) with piles of whipped cream. What a holiday! Fishing, morning teas and afternoons teas, fresh fish for lunch every day and drinkies under the gazebo. Bliss...
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At last someone else who's familiar with Cape Gooseberry jam. It is THE best jam on earth. My childhood memories of it are on white bread from the hot bread shop, cut into small shapes by my aunt as part of my holiday breakfast in bed. She made her jam from the Cape Gooseberries my great-uncle grew in New Plymouth.
I've been growing them for the last 20 years or so, just so I can make jam - and that's a bit of a mission in Dunedin.
Fantastic Bronwyn. I've found them for sale (at a rather high price...) at Bhana Brothers in Ponsonby Road but nowhere else. My last great experience with them was finding them wild while camping at Waihau Bay on the East Cape, cooking them up into jam in a billy over the barbeque one summer and serving then on fresh pikelets (also barbequed) with piles of whipped cream. What a holiday! Fishing, morning teas and afternoons teas, fresh fish for lunch every day and drinkies under the gazebo. Bliss...
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