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!?!
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.
Quote from: prink13 on July 04, 2006, 16:26:57
I have about 7/8 Bird Cherry (Prunus Padus) trees in my garden
What happened to the other eighth?
IGMC
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
amphibian, I think that the birds ate the other eighth! :P
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.
They make good jam, but the stones are a b***er to remove!
Make wine from them similar to damsons/sloes perhaps?
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!