Foraging - Natures Food

tessie_bear

i have made a massive kilner jar full of blackberry jelly...always made jam before but decided to give the jelly a go and its fab...got half a freezer full of blackberries to use up....pies and crumbles here i come

D&DD

We're off to get a few pears tomorrow as I still have a few of my brothers cooking apples to use.
I've found a recipe in the River Cottage Preserves book for Apple,Pear and ginger mincemeat sounds lush

On a side note I have one of those apple peeler,corer,slicer gadgets from lakelands and read/saw somewhere someone used it on their pears...marvellous it works really well!! Mkae sure you push the 'fat' end onto the spikes.

boultdj

splodger_seedswapper wrote: »

i picked a bucket of mirabelle (wild yellow plums) today - from our woods - as they are not as juicy as normal plums - and i am going to make wine from them - do you think i should treat them more like an apricot or more like a sloe - when it comes to adapting a recipe to suit them ?

Use a damson or plum recipe seeing as it's the same 'family' of fruit.hth.

splodger_seedswapper

my friendly local farmer pointed me in the right direction (for elderberries) today :j

i managed to pick a fair amount - 5kg's more off the stalks and in the very full to overflowing freezer :T

did manage to squeeze in the freezer the 2kg's of blackberries i picked from his hedgerows too

the blackberries in that patch are only just getting going - so i reckon i could have a couple of weeks of serious foraging along that stretch of field hedges - and the rosehips look awesome too :j

Rummer

Just noticed that the blackberries are starting to ripen here so we are going to start gathering them! So nice to get the jam and wine making going.

splodger_seedswapper

boultdj wrote: »

Use a damson or plum recipe seeing as it's the same 'family' of fruit.hth.

i have had to stick them in the freezer for now - as no more fermenting jars spare - but have found a few recipes that i could follow

HariboJunkie

Managed to get out yesterday and gathered masses of chanterelles as well as some oyster mushrooms and hedgehog mushrooms. There are HUGE amounts of all 3 just coming ( in spots they have never thrived before) so we will go back next weekend for more. We shared our bounty with our friends too.
I'm going to dry the hedgehogs and chanterelles today.

harrys_nan

We went out yesterday and picked a further 4lb's of blackberries, at the moment my freezer is over full and need to get some jar's to make some apple and blackberry jam

Mrs_Veg_Plot

OH and I went for a long walk and found apples, greengages, wild plums, bullace, blackberries and sloes. I feel a large preserving session comming on.

tessie_bear

what is a bullace ??