Nettles
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- Gillthepainter
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Re: Nettles
I'm sure we will, Wordsworth.
I never put garlic with roast chicken, as I find it overpowers the gravy, the meat. It's too much for me.
I'm not a garlic dodger by any means - just this particular roast bird.
We start to sniff the wild garlic in about late April here.
By the way, nettles tea, I absolutely love. One of my favourite herby bags.
I never put garlic with roast chicken, as I find it overpowers the gravy, the meat. It's too much for me.
I'm not a garlic dodger by any means - just this particular roast bird.
We start to sniff the wild garlic in about late April here.
By the way, nettles tea, I absolutely love. One of my favourite herby bags.
- Joanbunting
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Re: Nettles
The Northumberland Cheese Company make a fabulous nettle cheese.
https://www.northumberlandcheese.co.uk/nettle-cheese
https://www.northumberlandcheese.co.uk/nettle-cheese
Cooking for those you care about is the most profound expression of love - Anne-Sophie Pic
Re: Nettles
Reopened foraging thread as I've just foraged.
Any ide what these are? It's a very small tree round the corner, with loads of branches full of these hanging down. The fruit are 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch round and as hard as apples at the moment.
450g (1 lb in English) of Blackberries, they look extremely good, but three different kinds of weeny spider have already crept out of them...
Jam? Any other ideas?
Any ide what these are? It's a very small tree round the corner, with loads of branches full of these hanging down. The fruit are 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch round and as hard as apples at the moment.
450g (1 lb in English) of Blackberries, they look extremely good, but three different kinds of weeny spider have already crept out of them...
Jam? Any other ideas?
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Has to be crumble with apple or a blackberry upside down cake but I use some ground almonds in the sponge
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They look like bullaces, Sakkarin. I find them around here. We used to have yellow ones, but the council chopped the tree down. They need to be fully ripe before you pick them and they don't have a great deal of flavour. I can find red ones too. When they are ripe they usually fall off the tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullace
- Stokey Sue
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Sakkarin wrote:Reopened foraging thread as I've just foraged.
Any ide what these are? It's a very small tree round the corner, with loads of branches full of these hanging down. The fruit are 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch round and as hard as apples at the moment.
They are a kind of wild plum or greengage called a bullace; if you Google bullace you will mostly find pics of a kind of purple wild damson, but I’ve found the green ones round Enfield and near Farthing Down in Surrey. Both kinds grew near Chichester Harbour where I grew up, my dad was something of a bullace diviner
They can be very nice when ripe, I’ve never tried to ripen them at home so give it a go?
Reference picture
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=green+bullace&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=misvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBq-H-mI3kAhU1tHEKHcGGCLQQ_AUoAnoECA4QAg&biw=768&bih=906#imgrc=DrMBDJ_XjoEf6M
ETA snap Renée
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Here's me with my yellow bullaces and a Radio Lancashire presenter! There was a gardening expert there, but he didn't know what they were.
- karadekoolaid
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Bullace. Haha!!
https://www.google.com/search?q=semeruco&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix7sr4nY3kAhXMzlkKHbMiAMUQ_AUIESgB&biw=1366&bih=625#imgrc=HTXWpDCisLhKiM:
They call them Semeruco over here; in the Caribbean they´re known as Barbados Cherries.
Got a tree in the garden which has just started to reproduce.
https://www.google.com/search?q=semeruco&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix7sr4nY3kAhXMzlkKHbMiAMUQ_AUIESgB&biw=1366&bih=625#imgrc=HTXWpDCisLhKiM:
They call them Semeruco over here; in the Caribbean they´re known as Barbados Cherries.
Got a tree in the garden which has just started to reproduce.
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Chop one open to see the inside, if it has one stone then it is of the plum family, but looks more like crabapples to me - they are just like mini apples inside.
I make crabapple jelly when I can find them, it's a lovely pink colour.
I make crabapple jelly when I can find them, it's a lovely pink colour.
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The red ones look lovely KK!
Sakkarin, I think that yours might turn yellow. Here are the yellow bullaces:
https://futureforests.ie/products/damso ... ds-bullace
Linnet, the yellow ones have stones in them. I used to make crab apply jelly because my neighbour had a tree in her garden. My boys used to love it.
Sakkarin, I think that yours might turn yellow. Here are the yellow bullaces:
https://futureforests.ie/products/damso ... ds-bullace
Linnet, the yellow ones have stones in them. I used to make crab apply jelly because my neighbour had a tree in her garden. My boys used to love it.
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Ha! For a moment there I thought I had a load of old bullaces, but I just cut one open as Linnet suggested, and it is like a weeny apple, so I guess they are crabapples.
I thought I knew what crabapples were, but clearly not!
I wonder if they would pair with the blackberries instead of apple for jam? Although I don't think they're ripe. Just bit one, and they're like very tart apples, but not unpleasantly so.
I thought I knew what crabapples were, but clearly not!
I wonder if they would pair with the blackberries instead of apple for jam? Although I don't think they're ripe. Just bit one, and they're like very tart apples, but not unpleasantly so.
- Joanbunting
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In which make crab apple and blackberry jellyhich case. Lovely stuff.
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It’s quite early for Crabapples, Sakkarin. Those look a bit under ripe, if they are left for longer they might colour up and you get a jelly that is a beautiful rosy shade.
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i was going to say crabapples, too. there are a couple of different forms - the ones that look like tiny apples and the others that are slightly elongated.
- Gillthepainter
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My friend makes incredible crab apple jelly. Clear as crystal, and tangy.
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I'll put the blackberries in the freezer and wait a week or so until the crabapples are riper. Some of them are already tinged red, so hopefully that will be long enough.
Can you spot the red one? The ones hanging down are very green except for that solitary red one, but higher up the tree they're more reddish.
Can you spot the red one? The ones hanging down are very green except for that solitary red one, but higher up the tree they're more reddish.
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