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Foraging Hawthorn
Thorny tree/shrub. Small red haws, mild apple-rosehip flavor. Don't eat the seeds.
What to do with it
- Nibble the ripe haws (spit the seeds)
- Cook into a fruit leather or 'ketchup'
- Steep into tea
Ways to keep it
- Hawthorn jelly
- Haw 'ketchup'
- Haw vinegar
- Dry the haws
About Hawthorn
Crataegus (), commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America. The name "hawthorn" was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the common hawthorn C. monogyna, and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain and Ireland. The name is now also applied to the entire genus and to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis.
From Wikipedia.
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