Wild Foods

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« on: May 11, 2008, 21:54 »
As spring is truely here and everything is growing I thought I'd start a thread on Wild Foods, ie food that is either considered a weed in the veg patch or ones that can be gathered out in the wild.   Please add your own and include a recipe if you have one.

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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2008, 21:57 »
Nettles are a big wild food in spring, but there are already plenty of threads and recipes on here regarding nettles, just need to search for them or hopefully the posters will link here to them.

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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2008, 22:23 »
As requested

How to tap a tree.

You need
length of plastic piping
drill with bit same width as piping
collecting vessel
wooden plug


in the first two weeks of March find your mature tree,  maple/sycamore/birch are all good, bored a hole, 1" to 1.5" deep slanting upwards about 18" up from the ground, insert your piping, feed other end into your collecting vessel, held in place with a bung of tissue paper.  You can collect up to 4 pints in 24 hours.  Once you remove the piping close the hole with a wooden plug to prevent the tree losing all its sap.


The sap can be made into syrups but this take a lot of time and effort.
But it does make a good wine.

8pts of sap
0.5lb of chopped raisins
2.5lbs white granulated sugar
juice 2 lemons
yeast

Boil sap, as soon as collected as it goes off easily, add the sugar to the boiling sap and continue to simmer for 10mins. Put raisins in plastic/fermination bucket, pour over boiling liquid and add lemon juice. Start the yeast in a clean glass. Once liquid has cooled to blood temperature add the yeast. Leave to ferment for 3 days, then rack off into a 1 gallon jar and seal with an air lock. Leave until fermination finishes.  Rack again into a clean jar and allow sediment to settle.  Bottle in clean sterlized bottles.  Store in cool place.  Wine is ready to drink in one month but is better if left for at least 6months. If the wine is too dry sweeten with a little sugar syrup, be careful not to over sweeten.

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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2008, 22:52 »
Hawthorn

Hawthorn and Potato Salad
1lb new potatoes
1pt hawthorn buds and young leaves
3tbsp olive oil
1tbsp white wine
2tbsp white wine vinegar
seasoning
1 lettuce

Boil potatoes, then rub off skins, dice while still warm and mix in with all other ingredients except hawthorn and lettuce. Once cold mix in hawthorn and serve on a bed of shreaded lettuce.

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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2008, 08:55 »
hawthorn has medicinal qualities too, is it a heart remedy  :?

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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2008, 23:24 »
I've just asked my OH if she fancies trying the hawthorn and potato salad and she turned it down on the grounds that she's seen what's all over the hawthorns !  :roll:

We have a large and varied bird population round here. Unless the white coating is medicinal as well  :chef:

Rob

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« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2008, 23:35 »
makes yer grow  :D



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