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Post by northerngardener on Jun 18, 2015 18:04:40 GMT
Has anyone here ever made anything with hawthorn fruit? I found some trees with large green fruit on them, but I've never used them before. I see recipes for hawthorn jelly. I'm open to suggestions and I wonder what they taste like.
Thanks!
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Post by Skandi on Jun 29, 2015 21:43:11 GMT
I've made jelly with it, but I'm not overly keen on the flavour alone, so I normaly mix it with blackberries, rosehips, elder berries and a few apples, and make what i call hedgerow jelly, different every time it's made but always good. I've heard you can make wine from them as well. However I'm not 100% sure what I call hawthorn and what you do is the same, there's no way the haws here could be called large.. Crataegus monogyna is what we have here, the leaves are good as well, in salads when they are young, and the flowers make a nice tea which reduces bloodpressure.
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Post by northerngardener on Jun 30, 2015 1:28:45 GMT
![]()  I'm sure this must be a hawthorn, it has the hawthorn shaped leaves, and it has thorns, but the fruit are "huge" compared to the ornamental hawthorns I am familiar with. Each fruit is a little larger than a quarter. This small tree is on my land, but I don't remember seeing fruit on it before. It's possible there had been fruit and I just didn't see it. |
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Post by northerngardener on Jun 30, 2015 1:32:19 GMT
Here's another shot of the tree:  |
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