currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
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.
Poha, cape gooseberry. Small golden fruit with husk similar to tomatillo. Excellent in pies and jams due to its high level of pectin.
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.
The Gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (syn. R. grossularia) is a species of Ribes, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. It is one of several similar species in the subgenus Grossularia; for the other related species (e.g.