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Seasons/Availability
Cape Gooseberries are available most of the year. Supplies are imported from Colombia, South America where they grow wild and are gathered.
Description/Taste
Resembling a Chinese lantern, the gooseberry is wrapped in a thin, papery, inflated skin. These very tart, piquant fruits turn from a pale green to an amber or gold color as they ripen and offer a flavor similar to a gooseberry or a tart green grape.
Nutritional Value
Cape gooseberries are a good source of vitamin C and provide dietary fiber.
Applications
Gooseberries are tart but often used in sweet preparations. Add gooseberries to clafouti batter instead of traditional cherries. Fold pie dough over gooseberries and sugar, then bake into a galette. Puree berries with sugar and lemon juice then freeze into sorbet. Fill a baking tin with a single layer of goose berries, then pour over cake batter and bake; invert when cooled, into upside down gooseberry cake. To store, refrigerate unwashed gooseberries.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
Gooseberries are related to currants. Its cultivation at the Cape of Good Hope in the early nineteenth century influenced its name where it had become very well established.
Geography/History
Native to Brazil and a favorite of the Incas, the cape gooseberry was naturalized in the highlands of Peru and Chile, becoming identified with that region. Other names include physalis, Chinese lantern, golden berry, husk cherry, Peruvian ground cherry, poha and poha berry. Supplies are sometimes imported from New Zealand in the spring.
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is easiest, three is harder.
Cape Gooseberries are available most of the year. Supplies are imported from Colombia, South America where they grow wild and are gathered.
Description/Taste
Resembling a Chinese lantern, the gooseberry is wrapped in a thin, papery, inflated skin. These very tart, piquant fruits turn from a pale green to an amber or gold color as they ripen and offer a flavor similar to a gooseberry or a tart green grape.
Nutritional Value
Cape gooseberries are a good source of vitamin C and provide dietary fiber.
Applications
Gooseberries are tart but often used in sweet preparations. Add gooseberries to clafouti batter instead of traditional cherries. Fold pie dough over gooseberries and sugar, then bake into a galette. Puree berries with sugar and lemon juice then freeze into sorbet. Fill a baking tin with a single layer of goose berries, then pour over cake batter and bake; invert when cooled, into upside down gooseberry cake. To store, refrigerate unwashed gooseberries.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
Gooseberries are related to currants. Its cultivation at the Cape of Good Hope in the early nineteenth century influenced its name where it had become very well established.
Geography/History
Native to Brazil and a favorite of the Incas, the cape gooseberry was naturalized in the highlands of Peru and Chile, becoming identified with that region. Other names include physalis, Chinese lantern, golden berry, husk cherry, Peruvian ground cherry, poha and poha berry. Supplies are sometimes imported from New Zealand in the spring.
Featured Restaurants
Restaurants currently purchasing this product as an ingredient for their menu.
| Hotel Del Coronado Banquets | Coronado CA | 619-435-6611 |
| Searsucker Pastry | San Diego CA | 619-233-7327 |
| Tractor Room | San Diego CA | 619-543-1007 |
| Bertrand at Mr A's | San Diego CA | 619-239-1377 |
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Gooseberries With Capes. One
is easiest, three is harder.
