Florence White

Red Gooseberry Pie

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

Old Folkestone Kent dish. ‘This pie was always demanded by my wife’s father on the Sunday following Folkestone Fair day. He always had it when a boy at Folkestone. It may have been a Fair day delicacy. He was born 1832.’—H. J. GLover, Pevensey.

Method

  1. The gooseberries must be the kind that turn red when ripe.
  2. The pie is made in the ordinary way but the crust must be thick, as it has to be baked in a slow oven.
  3. It must cook very slowly. The gooseberries turn red.