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does these look right ?

Yep, you'll know if its not as it's very garlicky smelling.

Not got anything massively exciting, generally pesto, flowers in salad, bulbs in vinegar also for salad. Moved to Kent since last year, and haven't found any wild garlic or leek spots yet, despite being much more rural than Zone 2.

made a simple soup with a big handful of those leaves last night and didn't wake up dead
onion, potato and wild garlic. tasted good, healthy and nutritious

Elderflower champagne is in progress:)

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Finally. We’d been waiting for weeks for our buds to bloom.

I know right, there’s going to be loads more around here, will make another batch I think :)

Nice bottles. Did you buy those new or re-use them?

Would you mind posting up the recipe/method please?

I promise myself I'm going to do this every year, then don't.

I await the outcome of your efforts with interest.

Oh, they’re from ikea, bought them about four years ago for about 50p each and they’re perfect as they stand up in the fridge and less terrifying to burp while it ferments!

It’s this one - https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/elderflower-champagne/amp
It works a treat

Finally getting back into making stuff after house-move trauma and there’s so much good stuff here
The elder is in the front garden, the woods are full of wild leeks, looks like it’s going to be a bumper fruit year (Greengage and damson gin especially) so saving all the glass jars :)
Will know if the mash is any good by the weekend, will report back

Thanks

Looks like a great haul!

I made it a few years ago but used plastic water bottles instead - less aesthetically pleasing but no issues with breakages. Other tip I seem to remember is that I tried to pick the flowers first thing in the morning - there were generally fewer insects, especially thunder flies, on the flowers at that time of day.

Ah
Schoolboy error
Used brown sugar
It’ll be ok
Just a bit more ‘rose’ than ‘brut’ lol
It’s quite lively already, only been in the bottles for two hours, definitely need to burp it twice a day for a bit
Going to make some more with white sugar next

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Eek! Ideally you want that in airlocked demijohns until it has finished fermenting. You’re going to be quite busy letting the gas out of those - make sure you do it every couple of hours in the first week or so or you might have a few explosions!

Lol, burping like newborns right now, might have to put the in the fridge so it all calms down a bit!

Yeah, we use 2l plastic bottles from wherever sells the cheapest sparkling water at the time. You can see the bottles expand and they have some give in them so you can release the pressure. Even so we’ve had the odd explosion over the years - I wouldn’t recommend using glass bottles.

Well, nothing’s blown up so far but the first batch needed to go in the fridge during the day at it’s ALIVE
And starting to clear a little
The second batch just went into bottles and looks a lot more like wine (edit. Lemon curd) than puddle water
Should be ready at the end of the month I think…

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I just picked a bag of lime flowers to make tea with. This is probably the best weekend to do it. They’ll be over in the next few days.
Timing is perfect. I was down to a handful of dried flowers picked last year.

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Listened to this on the ride home last night - might be of interest to some. The health claims made are fairly bold, and if true, remarkable

Eating Wild
The Food Programme
Can you eat like a hunter-gatherer in 21st Century Britain? Dan Saladino meets a group of people doing exactly that to see how their bodies change during the three-month experiment.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ly7n

The lady in that is Mo Wilde. I read her book about foraging and living on a wild diet a few months ago. Well worth a read if you find that ^ interesting.

A strong case of nominative determinism.

Indeed!