The Currabinny cooks: James Kavanagh and William Murray get creative with gooseberries

From a traditional gooseberry pie to a more adventurous pickled gooseberry ketchup, The Currabinny cooks share their recipes for getting the best from these bitter berries.

Gooseberry crumble

Growing up, we were lucky enough to have an old gnarled gooseberry bush. Somewhere in amongst the trees which formed the far border of the back garden, it sat squat and unassuming.

It had deadly sharp thorns and a thick dark trunk. In my memory, the trunk and twigs were covered in yellow lichen, the same as what covered the seawall in the front of the house.