Living on the wild Side of Food

As soon as Spring is upon us nature begins to give his abundance. But when the wild food thinking most people usually refers to the power granted to the autumn fruit and clips, after they have been available.

This is probably the fact that many people are almost completely unaware of wild greens. wild plants, which has been harvested (often in their own back Garden) and consumed.

In fact, as soon as the changes in April May wild edible plants spring as part of the number if you know what. then you may be able to find the right six edible species on the spot in your back garden.If you venture further työterveyshaasteisiin, for example, then strip it back to the little practical you can see the 30 or more wild plants, are both edible and most importantly, eat good.

In fact, are clearly more than a hundred common plants (many of them are considered weeds), you can collect and add your own Recipes. There are so many rare plants so that anyone with sufficient information to gather wild plant or another throughout the year, Even the depths of winter., it is not enough for the abundance of wild plants, you can create a hedgerow salad.

This two recipes contain wild Spring Green and designed to be present.

In the spring Fritters

Ingredients:


180 g of flour


squeeze the salt


1 egg


450 ml flat beer


300 g edible leaves and flowers (hawthorn flowers, broom, gorse flowers flowers, young Beech leaves, hop shoots leaves bisort ground elder leaves, sow thistle, cleavers, henbit deadnettle, ramsons, red deadnettle, white deadnettle, [No, what is on the other hand, is in principle])

Method:


Add flour and salt in a bowl, made in the middle of the high sides and share this egg. pour the beer and started with a combination of slightly. Gradually pour more beer and include more flour. mix thoroughly, so that the lumps are not before us and added to the beer is about one cream consistency batter. Cover with a cloth and allow to rest bowl for 30 minutes.

In the meantime cut the Greens and flowers and rinse with plenty of cold water or oil Heat wok. deep pan and mix flowers and Greens into batter. Drop spoonfuls hot oil and istutuskalojen batter mix taking time until golden.

Pick up the page by using slotted spoon plate, Drizzle a little honey and serve warm.

Spring tart

Ingredients:


80 g spring buds (hawthorn flowers and leaf buds, gorse flowers and Beech leaves only bud)


150 g spring green (primroses, violets and wild strawberries young leaves)


12 Town flowers


80 g young spinach


double cream 100 ml


300 ml single cream


60 g of naples bisket (or any dry sponge cake)


1 whole egg


2 egg yolks


enough for pastry, 22 cm pie shell


60 g sugar


salt, to taste


just grated cinnamon

Method:


Add sugar candy part primrose flowers.

In the meantime, wash and drain the buds will be green, then Our very small single dish with. Add and double cream and Simmer 3. minutes, or until the green you then take off the heat and our fears or grate Finely. naples bisket and mix with the cream, sugar, salt and spices into. set aside to cool.

When you have made your pie crust (use either expensive short-crust pie or standard pie crust recipes) place 22 cm pie dish, add the dried beans to flat bottom and blind bake sale at 200 ° C in the oven for 10 minutes.

Whisk eggs must cream have been poured into this part of the mixture. baked pie crust and the point I can bake sale of the surface.: 170 ° C in the oven at tart 75 minutes or until the surface is golden brown. contact from the oven and allow to cool completely before putting them in the beginning of the primrose with candied flowers.

I hope that these recipes I have given unto you the taste of how you can use a different wild foods and flowers on your doorstep tasty dishes, and that you now want to learn more about the ingredients include your own cookery in the wild ".

Dyfed Lloyd Evans runs Celtnet recipes site that specializes in the Wild Food recipes. If you want to include more wild food then why not check out my cooking Wild Foods guide, which can help you identify wild foods, you can use your own cookery.