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Notes for foraging course attendees:

Sloe Gin
Fill your jar 2/3 with frozen sloes and a few rosehips, shake to bruise
Fill to top with Vodka
Leave min 2 months, maximum 2 years 
Remove sloes and rosehips ... used sloes make a great 'sloe port' by infusing in cheap port or red wine (plus a bit of sugar)
Add golden caster sugar to taste ... 300-ish grams
Add a wedge of lemon and 2 tsp junipers and leave for about 2 weeks
Strain off juniper and lemon, top up with Vodka and you are done! Don't be afraid to experiment with whiskey or other spirits.
Starter
Here's a great starter recipe, remember to use a couple of bramble leaves rather than leaving the starter mix uncovered. I find it takes 10-14 days not a week as Barney says in his recipe.
Sourdough
350g Starter
350g water
500g Bread flour
Mix and leave overnight

Stir dough, adding 20g salt and put in casserole or similar
Bake with lid on for 1hr at 140C
Take lid off and back at 250C for 15-20 minutes until starting to char nicely!
Remove loaf from casserole, turn the oven off then leave loaf in oven for 30min to dry out
Is foraging dangerous?

Follow this link to a podcast episode on dangerous courgettes and foraging, it is a fun listen from one of my favourite podcasts and an insight into what we perceive as dangerous food ... who knew a courgette can kill ?

Click here for 'The demon Zucchini'
Straws:
The first known straws were made by the Sumerians, and were used for drinking beer, probably to avoid the solid byproducts of fermentation that sink to the bottom.The oldest drinking straw in existence, found in a Sumerian tomb dated 3,000 BCE, was a gold tube inlaid with the precious blue stone lapis lazuli. ref: Wikipedia 
Natural Wines: vinepair.com/articles/wild-ferment-natural-wine/
Wine - 10% sugar gives approx 5% alcohol or a pound bag to a gallon
Ferments - 2-3% salt by weight, keep covered by liguid to avoid spoiling
​Sourdough - science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/sourdough.htm
Yarrow beer - www.selfsufficientish.com/main/2008/11/yarrow-ale-a-true-ale/ www.storey.com/article/homebrew-with-herbs-honey-lemon-yarrow-summer-beer/
Inedible seaweed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmarestia
Wonderful nettles
Books I recommend:

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