Red-Gooseberry Clafoutis

A real clafoutis, that vanilla-scented, dense batter pudding studded with fruit, is made with cherries. But that poses problems, the first being that the sour cherries that should punctuate the sweet billowy batter are not available over here (unless you’ve got a tree of your own). The second is that, traditionally, even if you lay your hands on the correct cherries, you should not stone them. Most people, however, would find it difficult to eat a pudding studded with unpitted cherries; and