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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: chriscross1966 on August 29, 2015, 15:05:09
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I've found a decent stadn of these things... anyone got any recipes for them.... a friend of mine suggested gin as they're almost as sour as sloes...
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Didn't even realise they were edible! :wave:
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They are definitely edible and I think they are very similar to barberries - as they say here: (https://wildernessguide.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/darwins-barberry-jelly/).
You actually don't need to cook barberries - the raw juice has so much pectin that it immediately turns into a jelly - a raw jam!
This is very good with meat & cheese - better than cranberry in my opinion.
Of course rubbing the ripe ones through a sieve is actually more work than boiling them, but the flavour is more interesting - apart from the novelty value and the kudos of an excellent product that cannot be sourced or purchased (outside rural France).
Cheers.
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Who said I was going to put any effort into sieving them.... I have a powersieve attachment for my Kenwood Chef, second most useful thing after the potato peeler :-)