Darina Allen: Cooking with gooseberries... The forgotten fruit

THIS evening we had compote of gooseberries with elderflower after supper with a few friends — a simple dessert, just stewed gooseberries really, but it blew everyone away.

Most of our friends hadn’t tasted gooseberries for years — they had virtually forgotten about them. The intense flavour sent them into a spin of nostalgia; many called them goosegogs when they were children.