Author Archives: Bob Compost

Recipes for Foraged Foods, Recipes for Making Cordials, Recipes for Waterbath Canning

Making Elderflower Cordial and Preserving it Through Pasteurisation

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Home made elederflower cordial recipe served with ice
01
Jun

The fresh and zesty flavour of elder­flower cor­dial is one of the great joys of spring­time. The sad­ness comes when it is all fin­ished. For­tu­nate­ly by pre­serv­ing elder­flower cor­dial through pas­teuri­sa­tion it is pos­si­ble to hold on to this lit­tle slice of spring through the depths of win­ter… For­ag­ing for Elder­flow­ers By the end of…

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Foraging for Wild Plants and Fungi

Not Just Ramsons.
Foraging for the Five Most Common Species of Wild Garlic.

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Wild garlic allium ursinum growing with bluebells in Chalkney woods, Essex
01
Apr

Although ram­sons are our best known and most abun­dant wild gar­lic it is not the only wild plant with a strong gar­lic flavour to grace these shores. When we think of wild gar­lic ram­sons spring imme­di­ate­ly to mind. This beloved native plant floods many of our wood­lands with the heady scent of gar­lic every spring.…

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