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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 'L' 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: GooseberryThis is the description page for Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) 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: Gooseberry.  The gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa (syn. Ribes grossularia) is a fruiting shrub and a member of the Grossulariaceae (edible currant) family which is native to native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. The gooseberry drows as a straggling bush reaching a maximal height of 3m (though more typically 1.5m). It's characterized by its spiny stems that stand out singly or in diverging tufts of two or three from the bases of the short spurs or lateral leaf shoots, on which the bell-shaped flowers are produced, singly or in pairs, from the groups of rounded, deeply-crenated 3 or 5 lobed leaves. The fruit of the wild gooseberry is smaller than in the garden kinds, but is often of good flavour; it is generally hairy, but smooth fruit are not unknown, the colour is usually green, but plants are occasionally met with having deep purple berries. You may think it strange that the gooseberry is here in a list of wild plants, especially as most people in Britain believe the gooseberry to be an introduced, garden, variety. The truth is that gooseberries are native to Britain and truly wild forms and garden varieties are cultivars of these. Indeed, truly wild gooseberries can still be found though most gooseberry bushes in the wild these days are either escaped from gardens or are hybrids between arden varieties and wild varieties. The fruit, though tart, are truly deicious and if you find a wild gooseberry bush they will more than repay your trouble in picking them. Recipes Utilizing Gooseberry Raised Gooseberry Pie |
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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