Beeech Nuts

[Blackthorn]

My local wood is full of life at the minute.

Can anyone suggest how to use/eat berries from Mountain Ash/Rowan instead of the obvious jams. Can it be eaten raw for instance.

Also Beech nuts! Is there anything that can be done with them apart from making oil. But i would still like to know how to do that too.

Any help would be great.

Cheers.

 

[Toddy]

Beechnuts; If they're fresh just crack them and eat them
Rowans; I can manage a few but they're too bitter to eat many

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[gregorach]

Not sure if rowan can be eaten raw, but having tasted rowan jam made with only a small amount of sugar on hand, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't want to. The flavour is rather... extreme, shall we say...

 

[demographic]

Funny you mention this cos I asked pretty much the same question over on Spoonys forum and one answer I got was THIS

 

[Scally]

(beech nuts)
i finished the woodlore journeyman last weekend and the beech nuts were fantastic either by holding the branch over the fire or picking and heating up in a pot, they open up nicely alot easier to get at. then we just carried them at all times you could feel the energy rush as went through the week. really good they were great added to things just like pine nuts .

 

[Toddy]

I picked free a handful of kernals yesterday, put them into a small frying pan and gently heated them until the oil started to grease the way, then added chopped mushrooms and syboes. Delicious on thin, crisp lightly buttered toast

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Keith_Beef]

Also Beech nuts! Is there anything that can be done with them apart from making oil. But i would still like to know how to do that too.

Get yourself a pig, and fatten it on the beechnuts, chestnuts and acorns.


K.

 

[dave k]

If you've got a fruit press it's easy to make oil. Just load the beachnuts into the press inside some muslin, and press the oil out.

 

[Tengu]

I had some yesterday

they taste great, a bit like hazels but very different

a pest to harvest though.