Gooseberries!!

First we drove into the woods and cut branches from the gooseberry bushes and took them to the cabin.

Then we stripped the berries from the branches.

After a careful rinsing, the berries were cooked down to a very soft pulp. And mashed a bit to get the juice out.


This is the pulp to be taken home to be squeezed through a cloth and made into syrup or jelly. Gooseberry jam with all the stickers is not particularly desirable.

The pulp ready to be squeezed in a good, handy dishtowel.

And now the juice is in the refrigerator waiting to be boiled down to jelly or syrup (with lots of sugar added -- a cup to a cup in fact).