I inherited a couple of gooseberry bushes in my garden which are still giving lovely small red gooseberries in abundance every year. My only problem is to beat the dickie birds to them as they ripen. Problem solved this year as I bought some netting to drape over the bushes. Result, a few nice goosegog pies in the freezer. Lovely grub, but I was getting sick of eating them too often. So froze them.

Quickbeam

Prick the gooseberries then fill two thirds of a kilner jar with the berries and their weight in sugar. Top up the jar until full with GIN and leave it for about six months shaking occasionally.

The resultant juice is amazing and the fruit covered in cream is nearly as good!!!

I agree with Bingalau's opinion!

It should work well with any spirit of your choice, but I would think gooseberries would be better in the white rum, or any other white spirit (except the stuff you use to clean paint brushes). For dark rum try plums or blackberries.

I think I now know what to plan for a Christmas pudding:)

...or cherries, there's plenty of them around at the moment and you get the added bonus of a cherry stone spitting contest!