Welcome to the Celtnet Guide to Wild Foods Beginning with 'T'

Wild Food Guide — 'T'



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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 'T' and includes both common and scientific names.

marker button  Tangle marker button  Taraxacum officinale marker button  Thousand-leaf
marker button  Thousand-seal marker button  Thyme (Creeping) marker button  Thyme (Wild)
marker button  Thymus serpyllum marker button  Tilia x europaea marker button  Tilia intermedia DC
marker button  Tilia officinarum Crantz marker button  Tilia x vulgaris Hayne marker button  Tragopogon porrifolius
marker button  Tree Ear marker button  Tricholoma gambosum marker button  Tricholoma nudum
marker button  Tricholoma personatum marker button  Trifolium pratense marker button  Trifolium repens
marker button  Trumpet of Death marker button  Tussilago farfara marker button  Typha spp

Example Entry

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

Wild Food Entry For: Wild Thyme

This is the description page for Wild Thyme (Thymus serpyllum) 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 Thyme.

wild thyme

Wild thyme Thymus serpyllum (also known as Creeping Thyme) is a member of the Lamiaceae (mint) family tends to grow in limestone uplands. This European native and looks very much like a dwarf variety of the cultivated common thyme Thymus vulgaris and grows as a prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm long, with oval evergreen leaves 3-8 mm long. The flowers are very strongly scented, especially if trodden upon and they are also wonderful bee attractors.

In terms of flavour there is little difference between wild and cultivated thyme. Indeed, garden thyme can be substituted for any recipe that calls for wild thyme. You can also make a tea infusion by placing the flowers and stems in boiling water and infusing for ten minutes. This is said to be an effective anti-expectorant.


Recipes Utilizing Wild Thyme

Lemon Mustard
Sweet Cicely and Wild Thyme Crusted Labnah
Iron Age Pork and Beans


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