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Wild Food Guide — 'H'



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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 'H' and includes both common and scientific names.

marker button  Hairy Bittercress marker button  Halimione portulacoides marker button  Hancock's curse
marker button  Hare Lettuce marker button  Hare Thistle marker button  Haw
marker button  Hawthorn marker button  Hazel marker button  Healing Blade
marker button  Heather marker button  Heathland Heather marker button  Hedge Garlic
marker button  Hedge Mustard marker button  Hedge Mustard marker button  Helig Mair
marker button  Hen-apple marker button  Hen of the Woods marker button  Hen Plant
marker button  Henbit Deadnettle marker button  Heracleum sphondylium marker button  Herb Bennet
marker button  Herb Gerard marker button  Hindberry marker button  Hippophae rhamnoides
marker button  Hirneola auricula-judae marker button  Hoar Withy marker button  Hogweed (Common)
marker button  Honeyware marker button  Hop Plant marker button  Horehound
marker button  Horn of Plenty marker button  Horse Foot marker button  Horse Mushroom
marker button  Horse Parsley marker button  Horseradish marker button  Huckleberry
marker button  Humulus lupulus marker button  Huzhang

Example Entry

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

Wild Food Entry For: Hairy Bittercress

This is the description page for Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) 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: Hairy Bittercress.

hariy bittercress

Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, (also known as bittercress, land-cress and lamb's cress) is a winter annual member of the Brassicaceae (mustard) family which is native to Europe and Asia (though it hasbeen introduced as a weed to North America. The plant germinates in the Autumn and remains green throughout the winter months. It flowers from quite early in the Spring until the Autumn. The small white flowers are borne in a corymb on wiry green stems, soon followed by the seeds and often continuing to flower as the first seeds ripen. The seed are borne in siliquae which, as with many Brassica species, will burst explosively, often when touched, sending the seeds flying far from the parent plant.

Hairy bittercress likes damp, freshly-disturbed soil and thus grows extensively as a weed in gardens. Because it remains green throughout the winter this is an important plant for the wild forager as it provides much-needed greens through the winter month though the best time to pick is during January and February. The plant is, as its name suggests, bitter in flavour and benefits from being gently wilted in heavily-salted water. This tempers the bitterness and yields a vegetable somewhat reminiscent of cauliflower greens.


Recipes Utilizing Hairy Bittercress

Spring Salad with Wild Mushroom Potato Cakes
Salad of Wild Leaves
Pan-braised Squirrels
Winter Salad
Goat's Cheese with Beetroot and Wild Herbs Early Spring Salad With Creamy Lemon Dressing


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