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It's amazing the amount of fruit trees one comes across along the river banks and foot paths
and unlike years ago when most people would gather the wild fruits to make jams, chutneys,
or simply ate the fresh fruit, how today the fruit is left to fall off the trees and rot away.
We always take advantage of the abundance of fruit in the late summer, making jam with the blackberries,
hedgerow jam with a mix of blackberries, elderberries, slows, rosehips, crab apples, bulace, damsons and any other fruits we may come accross.
Crab apples, bulace, damsons, apples, with added onions and vinigar and some spices make a years supply
of chutnies.
With elder flowers in early summer we make elder flower cordial, enough to keep us going all through the year.
Something we keep saying we want to try, come the autumn is horseradish sauce. ( love it on roast beef )
would love to make some ourselves, bet it tastes better than shop bought.
Does anyone else take advantage of wild plants, we would love to hear what you harvest and make from the wild.
It's amazing the amount of fruit trees one comes across along the river banks and foot paths
and unlike years ago when most people would gather the wild fruits to make jams, chutneys,
or simply ate the fresh fruit, how today the fruit is left to fall off the trees and rot away.
We always take advantage of the abundance of fruit in the late summer, making jam with the blackberries,
hedgerow jam with a mix of blackberries, elderberries, slows, rosehips, crab apples, bulace, damsons and any other fruits we may come accross.
Crab apples, bulace, damsons, apples, with added onions and vinigar and some spices make a years supply
of chutnies.
With elder flowers in early summer we make elder flower cordial, enough to keep us going all through the year.
Something we keep saying we want to try, come the autumn is horseradish sauce. ( love it on roast beef )
would love to make some ourselves, bet it tastes better than shop bought.
Does anyone else take advantage of wild plants, we would love to hear what you harvest and make from the wild.
