{"id":700,"date":"2011-01-31T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlanthonyonline.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2015-07-20T00:23:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T07:23:48","slug":"gooseberry-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlanthonyonline.com\/2011\/01\/31\/gooseberry-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Gooseberry Pie: The Bite of Pennsylvania’s Rare Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania’s Gooseberry Pie. Nothing says Keystone State like….Gooseberry!? No, it is not what is fed to geese or does it have to do with the feeling your skin gets when a fright comes over you. And, a fool is a sort of fruit pudding with whipped cream – not a pie. A pie is much better. Of course. It is, in fact, a fruit once plentiful in early America, nearly killed off, and making a slow but steady return in the place it grows best – Pennsylvania. The word “pie” is an open invitation to anyone with a lifetime of adventures in sugar, but when it’s filled with a fruit so rarely seen, let alone heard of for practically a century, duty to history compels a bite. \u00a0The sign for “Gooseberry Pie” was enough to strike awe in a few passersby at the Dupar’s\u00a0Pie Stand at the old Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles, where the last mini-pie of it left was snapped\u00a0up less than an hour after a precious few of them had been put out for sale. Gooseberry, gooseberry, where did you go?! An Agriculture Department gooseberry rendering. It is no wonder that its lemon-sweet aftertaste was not enough to sustain the gooseberry’s popularity into the 20th century and beyond. As if the name of this\u00a0grape-looking non-grape wasn’t bad enough, its most popular use was in a sort of whipped cream custard type pudding called a “fool,” brought to the U.S. by immigrants from England, where it grows in abundance, though the red berry version seems more popular than the green one used in this pie. Grown largely on the eastern seaboard, the gooseberry craze in America seems to have ranged from about 1760 to 1860. Pennsylvania Gooseberry Pie was beloved by native son and 15th President James Buchanan as well as the man he handed over a mess to, 16th President Abraham Lincoln. Odd that the odd name of this\u00a0currant\u00a0relative was never exploited against its\u00a0devotees by political partisans. The reason seems to be simply that the gooseberry was the truly bipartisan fruit. Federalist John Adams loved the fool (the pudding version), yet one recipe for it\u00a0stands out in the kitchen books kept by anti-Federalist Jefferson’s daughter. Half a century later, the Pennsylvania Democrat James Buchanan had it growing with Muscatine grapes in his garden and harvested for\u00a0tarts on his table, yet his immediate successor Illinois Republican Abraham Lincoln Continue reading →<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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