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sickpup

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 11:44 am Post subject: hawthorn berry recipes
does anyone have any good hawthorn berry recipes, ive scoured the internet and cant find anything

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 11:49 am Post subject:

I made hawthorne berry brandy once, it was ok, nothing special if my memory serves though.

I sometimes add a few berries to hedgerow jelly, again, just a few though as I never found them much good alone and there are also folk medicine associations with hawthorne berries having an effect on the heart, so I tend to treat ingredients like that with a little caution pending more in depth information one way or another

cab

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 12:35 pm Post subject:
Makes a passable wine, an unimpressive jelly... In themselves, they're not that exciting.

gil
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 12:40 pm Post subject:

Agree with both the above replies. I've used hawthornberries in jelly and wines too, but more as a 'padding out' of a main ingredient than on their own.

Partly because I still can't bring myself to accept that something that grows in such abundance can be so uninspiring in flavour. And I tend to add a few hawthornberries to whatever I'm foraging, just because they're there.
I find them mealy and bland.

cab

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 12:45 pm Post subject:
I wonder... Stewed, sieved, boiled down with sugar... Hawthorn cheese? Might be nicer than some of the alternatives.

gil
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 12:49 pm Post subject:
If it makes an unimpressive jelly, making a cheese with it would prolly bring a similar result, but with all the faff of pushing the flesh through a sieve. Are you volunteering for this task/experiment, Cab ? BTW, which fruit cheeses did you think were not worthwhile doing ? Just so I can avoid wasting time...

cab

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 12:55 pm Post subject:
Might be controversial, but I simply can't be doing with quince cheese. Its just so dissapointing. I love damson cheese though. Hawthorn cheese now on the 'to do' list, somewhere around number 150 I should think

shandy

Joined: 30 Jul 2008
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Location: Manchester, England

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 1:07 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

hedgerow jelly

Any chance of sharing your recipe Sally?

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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Location: ceredigion

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 1:40 pm Post subject:
WW2 cookery books claim hawthorn berries make a guava like jelly--- not in my experience suppose it depends if you're desperate for ingredients, I don't think much of them in wine either T.B.H. Much better to use the hawthorn flowers in the spring to make may blossom wine which is a nice dry white. If you can get pink mayblossom you get rose which is pretty.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 1:42 pm Post subject:

shandy wrote:

sally_in_wales wrote:

hedgerow jelly

Any chance of sharing your recipe Sally?

walk along a hedge picking anything thats ripe, make sure there are at least some crab apples to help the set. Put in pan with a mere drop of water, stew a bit, mash it up and put through a jelly bag overnight. Put a pint of juice to a pound of sugar and boil until you get a set. Sometimes I add spices

shandy

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 2:23 pm Post subject:
Thanks!

cab

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 2:31 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

I love it, proper hedgerow jelly

I favour rowan berries as flavouring myself; a mix heavy on rowan and crab apples gives the most awesome jelly I know.

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
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Location: Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 3:18 pm Post subject:
I've pm'd a file I have of Hawthorn recipes. Hope you find them useful.

gil
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 4:14 pm Post subject:

hedgehogpie wrote:

I've pm'd a file I have of Hawthorn recipes. Hope you find them useful.

Oooh ! Please could you post them on here, so we could all have a go at making something more palatable / interesting ?
Many thanks

shandy

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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 08 4:23 pm Post subject:
What she said!

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