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05-10-2009, 08:31 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| | | Edible Berries
Hi,
What sort of preparation do wild berries have to go through before you can eat them? There's always loads of wild berries where I live but my mother never lets any of the family eat them because of 'germs'  What is the proper preparation method? Is there a guide to the times that you pick them? If it helps in my area the most common are Rowanberries, Brambles and Wild Raspberries.
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05-10-2009, 08:35 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aviemore
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
Depends on the berries, some types just need a wash, others may be poisonous and can't be eaten at all, whilst others need to be cooked, or turned into jelly to be palatable. |
05-10-2009, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
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Originally Posted by earthdragon64  Depends on the berries, some types just need a wash, others may be poisonous and can't be eaten at all, whilst others need to be cooked, or turned into jelly to be palatable. | What about Rowanberries, Brambles and Wild Raspberries? |
05-10-2009, 08:37 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Norwich, UK
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
I have a few simple rules...
First of all Know they're edible 
I don't pick them too low to the ground in dog walking areas 
Avoid anything growing near roads, due to traffic pollution.
Other than that, a good rinse in plenty of cold water should sort them out.
TBH there's probably more risk from grown berries, with sprays and pesticides.
I always find the best blackberries are to be found in a cowfield. Must be the manure. |
05-10-2009, 08:51 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aviemore
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
Bearing TeresaW's rules in mind, Raspberries and Brambles should just need a wash and are edible.
Rowan berries are great made into jelly, they aren't any good just to eat though, a bit too astringent. |
05-10-2009, 09:25 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
I have always just eaten Rasps and Blackberries. Currently 60+, so if it gets me, it will have to act soon. 
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05-10-2009, 09:26 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland - by the sea
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
I never bother with washing blackberries - has it been a good year for them over there? They are very small and not so many here this year. |
05-10-2009, 09:29 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Norwich, UK
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
not many in East Anglia. Many of them dried out as soon as they were ripe. We need rain badly here...
Plenty of brambles, just not the berries. |
05-10-2009, 09:53 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Berks/South Oxon
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
I normally eat raspberries & blackberries straight off the bush - as long as they look fairly clean and well above animal height. My girlfriend just loves fruit - especially if it's free and she ate 100s of blackberries this year without washing them first ... and she was still alive when I last checked I wouldn't touch anything else though - I know to avoid nightshades and other nasty stuff but I just don't think there is much else that's worth eating. Raw sloes are just cringingly sour but saying that my girlfriend, the fruit monster, ate one and said she didn't think it was too bad
If I picked a bag of fruit and brought it home then I would probably give it a rinse but in general I think we wash fruit and veg too much and it isn't necessary. If anything I'd wash shop-bought stuff more than things picked in the countryside.  |
05-10-2009, 10:04 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fife, Scotland
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| | | Re: Edible Berries
Blaeberries are a real treat in late summer I take my little boy and some of his friends to my local RSPB reserve and they just gobble them up as they walk along the footpaths. Strange thing is if I buy them from a shop my son shows no interest in them at all! I think the fun is finding these fruits in the wild - natures larder! When I lived in Shropshire we were lucky enough to have damsons and hazel nuts in abundance
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