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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  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  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: Sheeps Sorrel

This is the description page for Sheeps Sorrel (Rumex acetosella) 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: Sheeps Sorrel.

sheep's sorrel

Sheep's Sorrel, Rumex acetosella, (also known as red sorrel, sour weed, and field sorrel) is a common perennial weed and a member of the Polygonaceae (knotweed) family.

These plants are seldom more than 30 centimeters tall and have alternate spear-shaped leaves, often with arrowlike bases, very small flowers, and frequently reddish stems.

In many ways these are plants of scrubland that can be found in old fields and other undisturbed areas (they often grow in old cracks in concrete) in Europe and North America.

The leaves and stems of the plants are edible and can be consumed both raw or cooked. However, like all the sorrel family the plant is high in oxalic acid which is mildly toxic and interferes with digestion. As a result it is suggested that not too many leaves are consumed at one sitting. However, cooking the plant by blanching in hot water leaches out the chemical and renders it safe for consumption.


Recipes Utilizing Sheeps Sorrel

Sorrel Meringue Pie
Sorrel Tartlets
Risotto with Sorrel
Salmon Fishcake with Sorrel Sauce
Sorrel Pesto
Wild Herb Casserole
Bean Soup with Sea Beans and Sorrel
Sheep's Sorrel and Purslane Soup
Sorrel and Spinach Soup
Chicken with Sorrel Sauce
Fried Herring with Sorrel Sauce
Hedgerow Salad
Winter Salad


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