Cooking with things picked or harvested from the hedgerows and fields around the farm: berries, fruits, flowers, leaves and seeds. Food to eat in the fields on a tractor or out walking.

FOOD FROM THE FIELDS & HEDGEROWS

elderflower syrup
A fragrant syrup to drizzle over strawberries or raspberries instead of cream or dilute to make a refreshing long drink.

raspberry loaf cake
This Raspberry Cake recipe works just as well with frozen or fresh raspberries

Lemon Cordial
Lemon Squash, Lemon Cordial … call it what you will. A refreshing drink – to drink it, dilute with water or sparkling water.

Raspberry Crumble Cake
A moist, fruity cake that can also be eaten warm as a pudding.

Raspberry Vinegar
Fruity vibrant vinegar

Huffer
Huffers are a traditional bread roll from Essex that are perfect for harvest lunches, packing for a picnic or stowing away in your rucksack while walking.

Egg in a hole
Egg in toast

Elderflower Fizz Recipe
Find more ideas for using elderflowers here

Harvest Bars
Chocolate, nuts and raisins densely packed in a butterscotchy bar

Rhubarb Flatbread
Surprisingly good with smoked mackerel or ham but I’d happily eat if for breakfast too.

Green Walnut Liqueur
A wonderful use for green walnuts. Pick the walnuts in the second week of Wimbledon, when the nut is immature and soft. This tastes even better after a few years!

Hedgerow Gin
Gin flavoured with berries from the hedgerow

Stinging Nettle Bread
A cheesy green bread to cut into wedges while still warm and spread generously with butter.

Rabbit Confit
Rabbits legs preserved under a layer of fat

Nettle Scones
Find a clump of young stinging nettles, snip off the tops and take them home to make these delicious green scones.

Petal covered fresh cheese
We eat these little fresh cheese balls with flatbreads and salads of roasted vegetables or fresh green leaves throughout the summer.

Rose Petal Posset
Rose Petal Posset is one of those effortless dishes that taste as though they’ve taken great skill to produce. Serve with crisp biscuits like ratafias or delicate shortbread.

Rose Elderflower Marshmallows
Light and airy marshmallows made with rose and elderflower cordial.

Violet Sugar
Spend a few minutes in the sunshine picking wild violet flowers and then quickly use them to make this beautifully hued sugar.

Elderflower Milk Jelly
A wobbly jelly to eat in early summer when the elders are in full bloom.

Rose Elderflower Marshmallows
Light and airy marshmallows made with rose and elderflower cordial.

Elderflower Creams
A rich, elderflower flavoured cream pudding similar to panna cotta.

Blackberry Tart
Shortcrust base, blackberry posset filling topped with blackberries