Hawthorn, the bread and cheese plant. Maythorn, Whitethorn

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Hawthorn, a lovely salad green in Spring, with very useful and tasty berries later in the year. By www.wildfooduk.com
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19 апр 2015

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@bstapleton3908 3 года назад

In irelans we ate the flowers between 2 slices of buttered bread & a sprinkling of salt & pepper. Also the berries make fruit leather! The thorns we used for cleaning our nails after squeezing the flesh from the berries. Thanks for the Lovely childhood memories

@ALoonwolf 8 лет назад

I would describe the berries as "creamy apple" flavour. The thorns make excellent fishing hooks, and the wood is good for burning. In wet conditions you can get loads of fine dry twigs from the tree to help get your fire started.

@moiragoldsmith7052 3 года назад

I read many years ago even just sitting by a Hawthorn will help heart conditions. I often nibble on the young shoots in Spring... but will certainly try Haw jelly. I love these vlogs. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. x

@nerminzilkic7974 4 года назад

I have been making tea with dryed flowers for many years. Lovely

@snipper1ie 5 лет назад

My father, born in 1912, introduced me to 'Bread and Cheese'. Though, what he was talking about was the unopened leaf buds. I can be found 'grazing' happily on the buds every Spring. People passing give me strange looks.

@mulan9468 4 года назад

It's a pleasure to find your channel, I've learned quite a bit about wild food in UK here. I used to love candy hawthorne berrys on a skewer in my hometown--a city in northern China, it's my favorite snack in winter. The hawthorne berry there is about size of a medium strawberry.

@SobrietyandSolace 3 года назад

I wish we had bigger fruits because removing the stones is a pain, but I used to love buying haw flakes, fruit roll ups etc from the Chinese supermarket, but sink relocating to a rural area there are none. I've just made some jam with our native hawthorn and it tastes like what I remember! I am in a homeless hostel right now, but one day if I ever get a garden, I really want to grow Chinese hawthorn. It's a wonderful plant.

@jonathanwilson6406 3 года назад

Love it great info xx

@TheMeliaz 6 лет назад

This was very interesting to watch thank you.

@yangtse55 3 года назад

I'm fairly sure it was a hawthorn spike that went through the sidewall of my "puncture-proof" bicycle tyre and left two holes in my inner tube on the way through - very impressive ...

@painstruck01 Год назад

omg, I know where loads of hawthorn trees are!

@GojosMojo 2 года назад

The bread and cheese bird references to the yellowhammer's call which sounds like "a little bit of bread and no cheese".

@MrJack8782 2 года назад

Excellent video as alwayd

@francesmarie73 7 лет назад

I will add the crazy and funny comment... I impaled myself on a hawthorn branch as I pulled a tree out of the ground and it knocked me off my feet. I think the pectin helped possibly congeal my blood faster. Unfortunately, my backside has no taste buds but perhaps if we could communicate with them they could say how I tasted, LOL! This spring I stepped on a large hawthorn and got it stuck in my foot. I think part of it may still be stuck between the 3rd and 4th. metatarsals. If folklore has any truth than I blame the fairies ;)

@WildFoodUK1 7 лет назад

hahaha :)

@Jamiejamjar 8 лет назад

Hello, new sub here. Been getting more into foraging this year. Notice that you're a Londoner in Shropshire - like me :) Just been watching this video. It's good to know that the berries are edible, I am looking forward to some of those. Hawthorne is one of my favourite leaves to eat - as you say, it's best in spring. Thanks :)

@WildFoodUK1 7 лет назад

Yup, and we love the shires :) we'll be running some courses near Ludlow soon if you are interested :) Check the site www.wildfooduk.com/foraging-trips

@Jamiejamjar 7 лет назад

Ah, thanks will do :) I'm located on welsh border nr Llangollen.

@TheWizzkid67 9 лет назад

Is that a wood pecker I hear in the background. They taste like green apple peel to me.

@tanner2stryker2 4 года назад

Woodpeckers are protected & don't taste like 🍎

@SobrietyandSolace 3 года назад

The leaves taste like green apple peel to me, too

@lettersquash 3 года назад

Very interesting video, thanks. I was amazed to hear you can just push the pulp through a strainer with a bit of water to soften them and it'll set into a jelly - do you mean without boiling them up first?

@TheUberdude187 3 года назад

You don't need to boil up the hawes they will set very easily just being mushed up raw.

@lettersquash 3 года назад

@@TheUberdude187 Wow, that's amazing, I thought I might have misunderstood. That'll make it very easy to prepare some for a healthy hit of vitamins and minerals while they're fresh. I guess the question will be how long it would store. Thanks.

@TheUberdude187 3 года назад

@@lettersquash They store very well. A common use for hawe berries or hawes in the UK is a fruit leather. Which is literally just mashed up hawes and sometimes other fruit too. Let to set and either dry naturally or slowly in a low oven. The resulting leather can easily last a year and more if stored correctly and be perfectly edible after all that time.

@lettersquash 3 года назад

@@TheUberdude187 Thanks again - I just found Simon, a Bloke in the Woods doing just that.

@lettersquash 3 года назад

@@TheUberdude187 Yikes, I just tried it on its own (as Simon_a_bloke_in_the_woods did in a survival competition) and it's certainly an acquired taste...rather bitter and the texture's awful, leaving a sticky gum on your teeth! I'll try again with some other fruit added or maybe some honey, lemon juice, etc. for a bit more zing. Or another video by wildfoodmary has it as a savoury thing with salt and pepper or soy sauce.

@lordbelcheriv6115 4 года назад

Interesting vid, thanks. I take it there aren't any similar looking trees that are toxic?

@WildFoodUK1 4 года назад

it's fairly distinctive.

@SobrietyandSolace 3 года назад

Trust me, you're not going to mistake hawthorn for anything else. The leaves are so distinctly lobed, it has the thorns and the red berries have a similar bottom to a blueberry unlike pretty much any other red berry or berry-like fruit. I must also stress that despite the stones being a pain to remover THEY'RE DELICIOUS. I used to love buying haw flakes from the Chinese supermarket and just messing around in the kitchen with no recipe I've created something absolutely gorgeous. I am in love with this flavour. Strawberries and raspberries etc seem really bland and boring by comparison. I'm licking the spoon as we speak!