I collected a small bag of red clover flowers yesterday at Spencer Lake. With much resitance I ate one and it tasted pretty good. I thought that it could be used in a stew or soup but it appears that they make better beverages.
Wildfoodgirl.com is a useful website for ideas about preparing foraged foods. She prepared the "weird" clover flower soup recipe. First of all, note that "wierd" is in the title. Not a good sign. This is what she had to say "I sampled the broth while cooking and it tasted like watered down tahini" http://wildfoodgirl.com/edible/weird-clover-flower-soup/#more-348.... Ok that won't work.
On the Prodigal Gardens website there are numerous beverage suggestions so I am going to try the red clover blossom syrup. If that works, I will collect more for the challenge and use challenge approved ingredients. http://www.prodigalgardens.info/red%20clover%20recipes.htm... Details of this experiment to follow...
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there is an article in Martha Stewart Magazine about foraging this month! she recommended red clover. I didn't know you could eat them.
ReplyDeleteI'm updating my posts with tags and realized that I never came back to this one. The syrup came out very well! From memory, I boiled the blossoms in water and let it sit in the fridge overnight. The next day I strained and squeezed the liquid out of the blossoms and added sugar to the liquid and boiled it until thickened to syrup. I gave everyone a small sample to take home. If used in the challenge, it will cost about 3/4 cup sugar since I used a total of 3 cups for the entire batch.
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