Free Food in September

tiff

I asked on Freecycle last night and had several emails so today I picked up 3 carrier bags full of apples which will make apple chutney. I got an email telling me the location of a damson tree, I went down and picked a load but I'm sure they arent damsons. I will try and put a pic on later and see if anyone knows what they are.

redagila

Just been browsing for ideas for using elderberries and thought this sounded good for later in the year

ELDERBERRY DUMPLINGS

BERRY MIXTURE
2 cups berries
3/4 cup sugar
1 Tbs, flour
2 Tbs. lemon juice
3/4 cup water

Combine all the ingredients, heat them gently and keep them warm while you make the dumplings.

DUMPLING MIXTURE

3/4 cup flour, sifted
11/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon peel, grated
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
Add the other dry ingredients to the sifted and measured flour. Mix the milk and the egg in a small bowl and stir them into the flour combination until the dough is just blended. Now pour the hot berry mixture into a casserole and drop in small spoonfuls of the dumpling batter. Bake the dish at 400OF for 25 to 30 minutes until the pastry balls are lightly browned. Serve the dessert warm with cream or vanilla ice cream.

Snakeeyes21

I once picked some mushrooms with a mate and cooked them up with some garlic and herbs over a campfire, put them on some lovely toasted brioche and scoffed the lot.

We then settled down for bed.

Little did we know those pesky things were magic muchrooms, now that was a might to remember :A

Now kids, a woods in the middle of nowhere really isnt the place to be when your tripping your tits off if you're going to eat some shrooms do it somewhere safe not somewhere you're likely to climb trees, go rock climbing and swim in lakes

Bettie

Soon be time to pick rose hips. Also rowanberries.
spotted rhubarb today growing in an abandoned garden.

ceridwen

BLT wrote: »

The local garden allotment is a great source of free food, you just have to make sure you go down late at night and wear a balaclava so you aren't recognised

Errrr...hasten to point out that this is a joke - as I know some MSE'ers won't get that this isnt a serious suggestion - yes really...:cool:

ceridwen

lucylema wrote: »

When we moved we gained an apple tree in the garden. I didn't think it had much fruit until i picked some yesterday. I have more apples than i know what do do with and there are still loady on the tree!

1. Swop them with someone else for something that they grow - but you don't

2. Put them in a box outside your front gate with a note saying "Help yourself"

3. Offer them on Freecycle/Freegle.

Lemony

I took the dog for a walk yesterday lunchtime and came home with a bag full of blackberries. I will make an apple and blackberry crumble sometime soon. Simple but yummy.

PLEASE NOTE: Be careful when encouraging youngsters to go 'blackberrying'. They might come home with a bag full of mobile phones...

cornishlady

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

I cringed when I saw "washed and are now in the freezer" - I never wash soft fruit before freezing it because it is rather hard to get it totally dry, though it sounds from your post as if that is what you always do?

i always rinse off blackberries ,most of the excess water drains off through the colander.

InfamyInfamy

lucylema wrote: »

When we moved we gained an apple tree in the garden. I didn't think it had much fruit until i picked some yesterday. I have more apples than i know what do do with and there are still loady on the tree!

I don't know where to find anything else. I know where there are some blackberries but thats about it. no idea where to find sloes or what they look like.

Sloes are small black & oval shaped and grow on high bushes which are thorny.

loopstar

My husband and I live in the West Wales hills and we've been foraging all year and have gallons and gallons of wine fermenting and we are planning on putting together 'homemade' hampers for Christmas to show our wares. I highly recommend grabbing yourselves a copy of Richard Mabey's 'Food for Free' as that is in abundence with foraging tips and recipes for you to go forth and use all that lucious free food that the hedges and trees have to offer. Hugh Fernly-Whittingstall's books are also very good also.