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February Recipe
WINTER CORDIAL
Not much available from the wild so try this Winter Cordial
4 desertspoons fine oatmeal
½ teaspoon ground ginger
2 desertspoons Demerara sugar
2 pints water
1 lemon
Mix oatmeal, sugar and ground ginger into a saucepan and grate the lemon rind into it. Pour in the lemon juice and boiling water and stir until sugar is dissolves. Simmer the mixture for ten minutes, strain and serve hot.
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January - Treacle Possett
February - Winter Cordial
March - Nettle Soup
April - Sea Beet
May - Crystallised Violets
June - Dandelions
July - Cockles and crispy bacon
August - Marsh Samphire
September - Blackberry Junket
October - Sloe Gin
November - Rose Hip Syrup
December - Pickled Onions
These recipes are with the kind permission of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (River Cottage Cookbook – Collins), Sandler & Acton (Preserved – Kyle Cathie Ltd) and Richard Mabey (Food for Free – Fontana/Collins)
When picking from the wild only take what you need and never from sparsely populated species.