Hi hope you can help!

[cuervo86]

hey guys im ben live in dorset been reading on here for a while but only just joined! well i decided to day was a good day to
start my foraging so off i went and collected blackberries which my gf made into a pie, well whilst i was out i found a few other things that i recognize from days out picking with my mum a long time ago and wanted to see if you guys could help me identify them

http://postimage.org/image/2octl3lhg/

couldnt add image so posted it here

any help would be great,

thanks

ben

 

[cuervo86]

im thinking slows, crab apples, rose hips, and the other one looks like some sort of cherry? but i dunno

 

[Hugo]

The top left looks like a couple of sloes, if they taste very bitter they are. If sweet small damsons.
Under that looks like a rose hip.
As for the two apples the green one looks like a crab apple, the red one I know of as just a wild apple, they never seem to get very big.
The bottom little green thing I have no idea.

 

[cuervo86]

thanks very much for you help hugo just wanted to ask as im sure you guys no alot more then me! now just need to find what i can do with them all ,i no my old
dear makes gin from the slows but no one else seems to be interested in any of the stuff i found in the picture they just want the black berries so more for me

 

[lannyman8]

rosehip wine is for winners...

sloe and apple fruit leather...

apple pie or cider

i think the other thing could be a hornbeam fruit but not sure, dont know if they are safe to eat either....

 

[The Ratcatcher]

"Food for Free" by Richard Mabey might help, if you get the text edition rather than the photographic edition. I know there's instructions in it for making rosehip syrup, but I'm not sure aboutapple or sloe recipes and I'm afraid my copy isn't handy at the moment to find out.

 

[cuervo86]

thanks for the advice rose hip wine sounds interesting, i have ordered that book last week after reading in here i would eb good to have it just hasnt come yet dam royal snail!