Welcome to the Celtnet Guide to Wild Foods Beginning with 'C'

Wild Food Guide — 'C'



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Welcome to the Celtnet guide to wild foods. As this recipe site has grown it has become obvious that to allow people to replicate some of the more ancient recipes on this site (especially from the Ancient, Roman and Medieval periods it is necessary to list modern alternatives but also to produce a guide so that the curious can find the original (often wild) ingredients for themselves. These pages are an attempt at bringing all these potentially useful and often forgotten wild foods together into one place. To use this guide simply click on the first letter of your term above or below. Alternativey why not just browse through the terms. You may well find something that surprises you!

This page covers wild foods beginning with the letter 'C' and includes both common and scientific names.

marker button  Calocybe gambosa marker button  Cale marker button  Calluna vulgaris
marker button  Campion (Bladder) marker button  Cantharellus cibarius marker button  Capsella bursa-pastoris
marker button  Caraway marker button  Cardamine hirsuta marker button  Cardamine pratensis
marker button  Cattail marker button  Carrageen marker button  Carragheen moss
marker button  Cart Track Plant marker button  Carum carvi marker button  Castanea sativa
marker button  Cep marker button  Cerasus padus Delarbre marker button  Chanterelle
marker button  Chenopodium album marker button  Chenopodium bonus-henricus marker button  Chervil (Wild)
marker button  Chess-apple marker button  Chicken Fungus marker button  Chicken Mushroom
marker button  Chicken of the Woods marker button  Chickory (Common) marker button  Chickweed
marker button  Chives (Wild) marker button  Chondrus crispus marker button  Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
marker button  Cichorium intybus marker button  Cirsium acaule marker button  Clitocybe nuda
marker button  Clitocybe saeva marker button  Clover (Red) marker button  Clover (White)
marker button  Cobnut marker button  Cochlearia officinalis marker button  Coffeeweed
marker button  Colewort marker button  Coltsfoot marker button  Comfrey (Common)
marker button  Common Ash marker button  Common Broom marker button  Common Burdock
marker button  Common Chickory marker button  Common Chickweed marker button  Common Comfrey
marker button  Common Dandelion marker button  Common Gorse marker button  Common Hazel
marker button  Common Hogweed marker button  Common Horehound marker button  Common Juniper
marker button  Common Kelp marker button  Common Lime marker button  Common Mallow
marker button  Common Orache marker button  Common Purslane marker button  Common Rose
marker button  Common Salsify marker button  Common Scurvy-grass marker button  Common Sorrel
marker button  Common Whitebeam marker button  Common Wintercress marker button  Common Wood Sorrel
marker button  Common Yarrow marker button  Comphrey marker button  Common Comfrey
marker button  Conopodium majus marker button  Coprinus comatus marker button  Corn Mint
marker button  Corn Poppy marker button  Corn Salad marker button  Corndog Grass
marker button  Coughwort marker button  Cow Parsley marker button  Crab Apple
marker button  Crabapple marker button  Crambe maritima marker button  Crataegus monogyna
marker button  Craterellus cornucopioides marker button  Creathnach marker button  Creeping Thyme
marker button  Crithmum maritimum marker button  Crow Garlic marker button  Cuckoo Flower
marker button  Cumberland Hawthorn marker button  Curled Dock marker button  Curley Dock
marker button  Cutweed marker button  Cymbalaria muralis marker button  Cyperus longus
marker button  Cytisus scoparius

Example Entry

Below, you will find an example wild food entry produced randomly from our database:

Wild Food Entry For: Wild Mint

This is the description page for Wild Mint (Mentha arvensis) and includes a description as well as an image, if available and a selection of recipes from this site that relates to the wild foodstuff: Wild Mint.

wild mint

Wild Mint, Mentha arvensis is a member of the Lamiaceae (mint) family which is also known as 'Corn Mint'. This perennial plant is a native of Eurasia and North America and in the wild grows to about 15–80cm in height. The leaves are highly aromatic and can be used for flavouring sauces and jams. Wild mint goes well with lamb but also works in hedgerow salads where (along with salt) in can be used to counter the bitter flavour of some vegetables. Chewed raw it also freshens the breath and can be used to stave-off hunger.

There is, however, no need to forage for wild mint as the common pot herb, spearmint makes an essentially identical substitute and is very easy to propagate and grow (I have at least three large pots of mint in my garden). But water mint is the native mint species of Britain. If you can find some, treasure it as the flavour is beyond compare.


Recipes Utilizing Wild Mint

Nigerian Spiced Goat Meat Pepper Soup
Violet and Mint Salad
Grey Mullet with Wild Sea Beet


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