I suggested that tasting a gooseberry might be a good first step before dismissing the analogy as crazy!. From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats] Reference
The most interesting point in the history of the gooseberry is the steady increase in the size of the fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
Loudon thinks it signifies Feverberry, because of the cooling properties possessed by the gooseberry, which is scarcely probable. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
They can be used to flavour cooked fruit and jam and make a sound match with gooseberry, which is also great at this time of the year. From Wordnik.com. [BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content] Reference
I also scored some interesting looking IKEA jam, gooseberry, which is a favorite of mine, and cloudberry, which I have never yet tasted. From Wordnik.com. [Around Pittsburgh] Reference
Mr. ENGERT: The kind of gooseberry aroma, the bright citrus, the touch of herb and grass in the nose. From Wordnik.com. ['Gypsy Brewer' Spreads Craft Beer Gospel] Reference
'gooseberry' with you, as I can't come that night. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
We used to call a gooseberry fool. From Wordnik.com. [Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series] Reference
And jostaberries, the black currant-gooseberry blend?. From Wordnik.com. ['This Has Been Surreal'] Reference
To cut or prune gooseberry and currant-trees is very simple. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
The children were playing keep house out under the gooseberry bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Mrs. Diedrich to play gooseberry -- and Mrs. Diedrich had fallen ill. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
I think I was put in to act gooseberry, and I'm not going to do it again. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
"I wanted to say gooseberry pies," said Rosamond, "but it wouldn't rhyme.". From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
On Whit Sunday the devout Sussex man eats roast veal and gooseberry pudding. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
This is a great day, the day when Mamma Gerard makes her gooseberry preserves. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Shadows circled around the backyard as chickens scampered for safety under gooseberry bushes. From Wordnik.com. [SOMETIMES] Reference
THE inevitable "enormous gooseberry" of the provincial newspaper "local" has made its appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870] Reference
Mrs. Halford began to wonder a little anxiously how long the gooseberry campers would stick it out. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Thus we have the "gooseberry-bush" style, which is employed for those vines requiring short pruning. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Sometimes she gave me fruit to peel, but I could feel her eyeing the knife, inspecting each gooseberry. From Wordnik.com. [The Island] Reference
The ordinary gooseberry is a plebeian fruit, but this one was more patrician than its name, and its name was. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
The rain was pounding down through the gooseberry screen now and the carpet was decidedly damp on the edges. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
It is said by travellers that many of the species bear edible fruit, resembling somewhat in taste the gooseberry. From Wordnik.com. [Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden] Reference
Mrs. Halford smiled and settled down to her sewing after one parting look at the camp under the gooseberry bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The rector's man would go down -- and receive one gooseberry from a basket of ten: all that was to be gathered that day. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Reggie, leading the way a few paces in front, between close rows of gooseberry bushes, heard every word, and he set his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
Unlike the plum, apple, gooseberry or rhubarb, the peach lacks any real acidity to contrast the sugary, buttery elements in the crust. From Wordnik.com. [Nigel Slater's peach recipes] Reference
Day girls had been requested to bring samples of cherry trees and gooseberry bushes and such things as were not to be found at York Hill. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
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