What wild fruits do you use?

Happygreen

and what do you do with them?

Well, mine are wild but in my garden
I'm making sloe gin this year.

There are some buckthorn berries and a few elderberries I'll freeze just now but revive in a Chistmas liqueur.

I have plans to make a crab apple jelly, maybe with mint or with chilli but they need to redden a bit more on the tree.

Your turn now what do you have nearby and what do you make?

Nargleblast

Crab apple jelly from.the fruits on our crab apple tree - use just like any jam, absolutely gorgeous. Foraged blackberries used in crumbles and pies, or even used to make a blackberry vinegar. Elderberries used in elderberry syrup - a shot glassful a day to boost your immune system and fight colds.

malefic

Bit late to this one but so far I have used unripe quince we found on a walk in a chutney made with our own tomatoes, I have my eye on a couple of bushes full of ripe rosehips to make a syrup and I live in an area full of rowan trees so will grab some berries and make a rowan berry and crab apple jam.......well, if I find enough time to go grab everything!

Then there are the normal blackberry picking sessions for pies and elderberries to make pies and syrups. My elderflower cordial went a bit wonky this year so wasted a few litres of it due to the bottles not sealing properly and it growing some fine looking blue fluff!

Farway

Have used wild apples & blackberries for pies / crumble. And this year I am trying blackberry vodka in time for Christmas

nanto3girls

Got the usual blackberries,some made into pies and crumbles with apples.Some waiting in the freezer to be used.Rhubarb from next doors wild garden.