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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. |
Below, you will find an example wild food entry produced randomly from our database:
Wild Food Entry For: Garlic MustardThis is the description page for Garlic Mustard (Allaria petiolata) 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: Garlic Mustard.  Garlic mustard, Allaria petiolata, (also known as Hedge Mustard, Garlic Root, Hedge Garlic, Sauce-alone, Jack-in-the-bush, Penny Hedge, Poor Man's Mustard and Jack-by-the-Hedge) is a flowering plant in the Brassicaceae (mustard) Family. It is a biennial plant that grows between 30cm and 1m tall and remains green throughout their first winter. This common hedgerow plant has tasty leaves full of vitamin C that make an excellent addition to any salad. When crushed the leaves have a garlic-like odour (hence the genus name of Alliaria 'resembling garlic'). The leaves also have antiseptic qualities and can be added as a preservative to stews or sauces that you want to freeze. The leaves can also be used to make a rather wonderful hedgerow pesto. The plant leaves are distinguished by their scaloped edge and deep veins. The plants develop a long taproot which is spicy in flavour and excellent in soups. Recipes Utilizing Garlic Mustard Garlic Mustard Pesto |
You can also use the search box below to find the wild food of your choice. You can use the common name or the scientific name or any text you choose:
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