Sloe Dumplings
I adapted this from a family recipe which used shop bought plums, which was lovely but I think that these small snack size versions are …
Category: Rosaceae
Rose family
Size
95 genera, 2830 species.
Distribution
Worldwide distribution but concentrated in northern hemisphere, outside of desert and tropical areas.
Notable genera:
- Apple (Malus)
- Avens (Geum)
- Blackberry and raspberry (Rubus)
- Burnets (Sanguisorba)
- Cinquefoils (Potentilla)
- Cotoneasters (Cotoneaster)
- Hawthorn (Crataegus)
- Ladies mantle (Alchemilla)
- Meadowsweet (Filipendula)
- Pear (Pyrus)
- Plums, almonds, peach, apricot, blackthorn, cherries (Prunus)
- Rose (Rosa)
- Rowan and service trees (Sorbus)
- Strawberries (Fragaria).
Key features:
- Herbaceous or woody, often shrubs or trees.
- Leaves simple or pinnately compound, often arranged spirally.
- Leaf margins are often serrated.
- Eye catching flowers.
- 5 sepals, 5 petals, and many stamen.
- Flowers usually in racemes, spikes or heads. Sometimes single.
- Fruits vary from pomes to drupelets to drupes to dry capsules or nutlets.
Wild Damson Crumble
This dish was created using the Wild Veg box from Totally Wild UK, using the foraged ingredients and a few other simple ingredients. Some recipes …
Silverweed
The yellow flowering plant of the dusty wayside with silvery fern-like leaves that lay flat on the ground has been called the Footsteps of Our Lord.
Bullace
Often confused with damsons and other wild plums, the bullace has a less pronounced (sometimes not visible) crease and tends to be more round than the oval damson.