Can I eat it?

[prink13]

I have about 7/8 Bird Cherry (Prunus Padus) trees in my garden, can I eat the fruit, if the birds don't get them all!?!

[prink13]

[Ceratonia]

Plants for a future database is good for this kind of question.

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Prunus+padus

They are incredibly sour, but you could use it for jam.

[amphibian]

I have about 7/8 Bird Cherry (Prunus Padus) trees in my garden

What happened to the other eighth?


IGMC

[lorna]

Amphibian TOO WARM FOR YOUR COAT. I hope to meet up with prink13 in the near future, she has moved to my town. I will tell her about the sense of humour on A4A ;D ;D ;D ;D

[prink13]

amphibian, I think that the birds ate the other eighth! :P

[OllieC]

We used to make something called "Hodgekin" as kids (well, our mum made it). I think it was loads of these crammed into jars and then topped up with in Gin then stood for half a year or so. I could be completely wrong, and I don't know if they were cooked first.

I do remember they were delicious with ice-cream, and got you tipsy which was a bonus. *I could have the recipe completely wrong, BTW.

[jennym]

They make good jam, but the stones are a b***er to remove!

[trojanrabbit]

Make wine from them similar to damsons/sloes perhaps?

[prink13]

Jam sounds like the best bet, I've made sloe gin and vodka before, but don't really drink! however I do like my bread and jam, so I think I'll try that this time.......there's always next year for experimenting!