Tonight I decided to make a gooseberry pie. I forgot what a major task it is. First of all, gooseberries grow on really thorny bushes. Secondly, I was picking after a thundershower when the mosquitoes were especially ravenous.
If you don’t know about gooseberries, each berry has both a stem and a little black “tail” opposite the stem. Both have to be removed, which means each berry requires two separate operations. While they are bigger than blueberries, they aren’t all that big, so preparing them took an hour and a half–you need four cups for a nine inch pie.
It was too late to make the pie tonight, so the berries, now ready, are in the refrigerator. Next time I will buy a damn pie.
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