Tag: Spring Foraging

Magnolia Flower Jam / Magnolia Flower Jelly

We aren’t huge bread eaters in our family, which is a shame since I love making jam. I was looking at some leftover magnolia flowers and wondered whether you could use them the same way as roses to make a jam, and the answer is yes! You can make a beautiful magnolia flower jam from …

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Gorse Shortbread

“Only kiss when Gorse is in flower!” Fortunately for lovers everywhere, there are twenty species of gorse out there, so there’s always one in flower! They are sort-of sweet (unless you pick them along the coast) and sort of coconutty or pineapple-ish. The flavour you get from them depends a lot on your taste buds. …

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