What is a tomatia sometimes known as a goose berry?!
What is a tomatia sometimes known as a goose berry?
looks like a small green tomato
Answers:
it's a berry, fruit. (when ripe tastes great)
tomatoes are berries too.
gooseberries are small green with pale veins and slightly hairy. It's a very sharp fruit, great in crumbles and the like, a bit to much on it's own (well imho) Not very tomato like at all (about half the size of a cherry tomato usually).
We have gooseberry bush in our garden they look like green grapes but are very hard and very bitter to taste !
a goose berry is a small green berry that grows on a bush. They generally prefer a cooler climate. The berries themselves are very sour to bitter tasting and are usually cooked down with some sugar and a pinch or 2 of salt. They are called gooseberries because the English used to use them in a sauce to cut the greasyness of goose when eaten.
I'm pretty sure you mean tomatillos. Tomatillos are often called cape gooseberries in Europe because they resemble their cousin, the gooseberry, but are quite larger.
The cape gooseberry is of the same botanical family as the tomato, i.e. solanum. When the papery husk is peeled off, it looks like a golden cherry tomato. Check this link:
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/cape_goos...
If you mean a tomatilla, that is different than a goose berry. It is more like a tomato, and it is used to make a salsa in mexican food. At the store it comes with what looks like a papery wrapper on it, but looks like a very small tomato.
You must have watched Rachel Ray today! I think she said the tomatillo plant is "related" to the gooseberry...not the same thing