Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Holly and Rics Swap Followup Plant Questions- "what is...?", 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Onewish--

I have an OLD Gooseberry bush and the leaves look just like that. The thorns are a dead giveaway!
Currants have similar leaves--but no thorns....

This picture is from my trip to Latvia last Summer. Currants grow so well there!
My cousin has all colors of currants in her little country house. They come red, white, and black. The black tastes very different--and I remember people always used the leaves from the black currant in the brine when making pickles....Black currants are NOT great to eat off the bush, but makes excellent jelly.
These are the white--and it shows the leaves pretty good.