Category: Wild Food Recipes

This Elderflower Eton Mess Recipe is a fantastic way to utilise the summers Elderflowers, and once they’ve dropped out of season, if you’ve made up some elderflower cordial or elderflower syrup then you can use that in the recipe too 🙂 Ingredients for Elderflower Eton Mess Recipe (enough for 4)…

  This Nettle Energy Ball Recipe is incredibly simple and the energy balls you get are absolutely jam-packed with nutrients and minerals – the perfect thing for a mid-hike snack.  Ingredients: 1 cup of rolled oats 1/2 cup of ground almonds (or other nuts/seeds of choice or more oats) 1…

This Linden Blossom Jam recipe is a fantastic way to create a preserve out of a super seasonal ingredient which we can use over the rest of the year. Collect your blossoms/plant material the day before you want to make the preserve. If using blossoms place in a jug, the…

This Sorrel and Raisin Walnut Tart recipe utilises the sharp flavour of sorrel and creates something beautiful. With a sharp citrus flavour, which many people describe as a green apple flavour, this little green leafy plant was traditionally used to add sharpness to dishes, before we had access to lemons. …

This Wild Rose Harissa Recipe requires on ¾ of a cup of rose petals.  I use Rugosa because I love their scent, but you can use any provided it has a lovely smell.  Our wild roses have a lovely scent if you collect them on a warm dry day, but…

These Linden Blossom Empire Biscuits is a lovely way to utilise this super season honey flavoured blossom. The Linden or Lime tree, spread across much of Europe, at the end of the last ice age, around 8000 BC. In fact, it was the dominant broad leaved species across much of…

In this Dandelion Root Peshwari Naan recipe, where the Dandelion roots are notoriously bitter tasting things, but it’s quite amazing what a transformation happens upon applying a little heat to the situation.  The texture of the Dandelion root is very similar to coconut, which is what gave me the idea…