A pie very similar to gooseberry can be made with unripe grapes. Pick them before they start to ripen and the seeds will still be soft and unnoticeable when cooked. Use a standard gooseberry pie recipe.
I think you are completely right about red currant pie, it is not worth it
being watery, unappetizing to look at and not a great flavour (you see I have
tried). Of course black currants are quite a different proposition; with
apples or on their own they make a wonderful, I mean superior!, pie.
For reds the usual English alternative along the general lines of my simple
red-currants-with-peaches is Summer Pudding. If you have other (usually red
or reddish) fruit, say raspberries, cherries or blackberries the combination
in an uncooked pie (with `crust' made of bread) is excellent -- I'm sure you
can find a recipe easily enough and it IS good.
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