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ahedderick · 2 days

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Foraging

Monday I picked dandelions and violets to experiment with flower-flavored syrups. It was time-consuming, but I just felt like trying something new. I have done violet jelly before, although the results were mediocre.

The first step after separating the petals from the greens was to pour boiling water over each kind and let them sit for a day. The violets had a greenish-blue extract by evening, and by morning it had settled into a deep blue. I tried adding a couple of drops of lemon juice, which shifted it to blue-purple. Violets have the same pigment, anthocyanin, as red cabbage, and it is pH sensitive. I am curious why my tap water (from a well) would have a pH of 9(ish), but I'll go ahead and blame limestone.

I cooked the dandelion first, adding sugar equal to the amount of liquid (1.25 cups). I cooked it for a while and then bottled it when it seemed like it had thickened up (the bubbles start to PLOP instead of 'pop', if that makes sense).

Here it is, compared with honey. The color is virtually the same!

Then I started with the violet. As I heated it, the color shifted BACK to greenish-blue. I added a little more lemon juice, and it ended up weirdly purple from some angles and blue from others, depending on how the light hit it. It's also DARK, too dark for me to photograph and show you much color. When it cooled down it a) turned a steely blue-grey and b) crystalized.

That. that is NOT what I was going for. It also doesn't really taste like anything. Just 'sweet'. Drat.

#farmblr #spring #spring flowers #foraging #foraged food #solarpunk #foragecore #flowers #dandelion #violet #FAIL!

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lake-lady · 1 year

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gyroporus cyanescens (cornflower bolete)

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celesse · 9 months

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An essential lesson of forest life 🌲🦊🦊🌿

Prints here 💕

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softwaring · 5 months

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Autumn Mushroom Mix… from Lithuania 🍄🍁🍂🥰🍄 by Jurgita Kvas

#mushrooms #fungi #fungus #wild fungi #foraging #foragecore #cottage aesthetic #cottagecore #the colorssss

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wickedshoesboutique · 4 months

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rotteneldritchhorror · 5 months

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I desperately need more botany/gardening/solarpunk/foraging posts that aren’t so fucking American-centric

“European plants are invasive” okay, in America— but which ones are invasive HERE, like are Spanish species invasive to England? Are French plants invasive to England??