Forage & Find

Todays bounty 🖤❤️🧡
Rosehips, haws, sloes and I found some late flowering red clover which will infuse in vodka for a few weeks....blackberries are still abundant in some sheltered places.. Unfortunately, I missed the boat for the elderberries again(!!) this year and didn't collect half as much as I wanted ... They come and go very quickly especially in wet and windy weather.

Pineapple W**d (Matricaria Discoidea)

If you like camomile tea you will probably love a tea made by infusing a few flowers in boiling water for a few minutes.
When crushed, the flowers release their aroma which is a cross between camomile and pineapple.
It is a very common 'w**d' and thrives in wasteground, dirt tracks and persists even when walked upon. It is in season now!
The flowers and the leaves can be eaten raw, in a salad and the flowers also make a delicious syrup and used to drizzle over ice-cream or diluted with sparkling water.

1.8 litres water
1.5kg white sugar
Zest of 1 lemon
20 pineapple W**d flowers

Bring water, sugar and lemon zest to a boil until reduced by half.
Take off heat and add pineapple W**d flowers.Leave to infuse over night and strain into sterilised jars.
Will keep in the fridge for a few weeks or you could freeze in ice cube trays.

Recipe from: The Hedgerow Handbook by AdeleNozedar.

Thanks to everyone who came on the walk today in Castlemartyr Woods!

Our next walk is Sunday week, June 26th in Bandon at 10am followed by a short cooking demonstration with wild foods. Roughly 3 hours in total.

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