Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 8:16 am Post subject: Flowering Currant
I've been eating lots of flowers from fllowering currants this year (the pretty pink flowered currant bushes, the ones that look good but produce bland, pointless fruit).
The flowers are really tasty; I pick them off from the clusters and scatter them over a salad, they taste sweet and curranty.
It's only just occurred to me that I haveno idea as to whether they're edible... I presume that they are. Any ideas?
This is too similar to warrant its own post....can you eat wallflowers? They're brassicas, and they smell lovely. But I've never heard of them being edible.
This is too similar to warrant its own post....can you eat wallflowers? They're brassicas, and they smell lovely. But I've never heard of them being edible.
Yes, it's in Phillips, but NOT in his wild food book; it's in the herbs book, and it certainly is not edible; it's even more cardiotonic than foxgloves, so should really, really be avoided. Really nasty.
Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 05 8:52 pm Post subject:
Are they that bad? Are they still safe to bring in as cut flowers? I'm also sure we used to feed them to our rabbits.
top, tender leaves from black currants then. Might be more to your tastes, you flower hating oddity
I don't hate most flowers, just those that appear to have got their scent from the wrong end of a cat.
ROFLMAO!!!
that's how i feel about lavendar, everyone thinks i'm weird but it makes me feel so dizzy and lightheaded that i feel like i'll vomit... as you can imagine that doesn't hold alot of appeal to me
so, i'll know i've found flowering currant if i smell cat bottom then? i think i'll stick to sniffing for wild garlic
View Latest Posts