[arugula]

Mushrooms! I so wish I was brave enough to try harvesting some of these beauties.

I'm with on this but would not be sure enough what was what to know I wouldn't poison the family!!

Where we used to live, our very good friend does mushrooming very successfully - OH saw it done a few times, but I never have. I've even got more than one book on the subject, but there are certain things learned better by practical demonstration and this is certainly one of them. Where we are now, there are no such thing as courses on such subjects.

[Mosslane]

So annoyed - John saw some puffballs yesterday up the lane so we went to have a look this morning as we read some lovely recipes last night. Some one had kicked them all to pieces. What a waste.

[arugula]

Obviously someone who doesn't appreciate good food.

[aelf]

picked 6lb of blackberries over the weekend from the brambles around the perimeter of my plot, now converted into 2 gallons of blackberry wine, should be ready for Christmas 

I could also pick bags full of hawthorn berries but not sure what to do with them?

[Mosslane]

Just printed off some recipes for hawthorn berries from the net.

Good one seems to be Haw-Sin Sauce from River Cottage.

500g Hawes, 250ml cider vinegar, 250 ml water, 250g sugar, salt and pepper.
Clean and de stalk berries and wash. Place in oan with water and vinegar and boil. Simmer for 30mins or until skins split. Rub through a sieve to remove skins and stones. Put to sieved juice in a pan with sugar and heat gently until sugar dissolves. Boil and cook until it becomes syrupy. season to your taste and bottle.

They say to use as an addition to meat or to add to casseroles as flavouring.

Other than that you can add to crab apples and boil and strain to get a juice and make jelly in the usual way 1lb of sugar to 1 pint of juice.

[aelf]

Just printed off some recipes for hawthorn berries from the net.

Good one seems to be Haw-Sin Sauce from River Cottage.

500g Hawes, 250ml cider vinegar, 250 ml water, 250g sugar, salt and pepper.
Clean and de stalk berries and wash. Place in oan with water and vinegar and boil. Simmer for 30mins or until skins split. Rub through a sieve to remove skins and stones. Put to sieved juice in a pan with sugar and heat gently until sugar dissolves. Boil and cook until it becomes syrupy. season to your taste and bottle.

They say to use as an addition to meat or to add to casseroles as flavouring.

Other than that you can add to crab apples and boil and strain to get a juice and make jelly in the usual way 1lb of sugar to 1 pint of juice.

Thanks Mosslane, I've copied the recipe to my notebook - may have a go when back from my hols 

[scabs]

Just filled my coat pockets with 4.5lb of wild yellow plums from my secret tree at lunchtime. The 'secret' red one right next to it has been stripped bare over the weekend by the lady who keeps bees. You have to be quick in Rawtenstall! 

When they saw what I had, the people at work started pestering me for my 'Forager's Jam'!!!

So, I need a few lbs of crab apples and a hefty wedge of blackberries now! 

[arugula]

Hey, but do they ever help you forage Scabs? 

[mumofstig]

can you tell me where you forage for sugar? Like the fruits, it is very expensive in the shops this year

[scabs]

Hey, but do they ever help you forage Scabs? 

I have enough of them at work, I don't want to spend my time with them at lunchtime too!

can you tell me where you forage for sugar? Like the fruits, it is very expensive in the shops this year

Barbados! 

[Slowgrind]

One of the pound shops in our town sells one kilo bags of sugar for guess what?
Yup £1:00.

[mumofstig]

£1.98 for 2 kg in Tescoes  :blink:

[Mosslane]

Ocado/waitrose £1.35 for 2kg. Says it is price matched with Tesco so Tesco should be same price.

[mumofstig]

just checked the bill and it was £1.92 so somethings not right..

[Mosslane]

Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Granulated Sugar 2kg
Be the first to rate this product Price per kg: 67.5p

Tesco Price Match

  £1.35

    Qty.   

Copied from Ocado site  I notice though that Tesco do silverspoon not Tate and Lyle so don't know where they get Tesco price match from