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Foragers' Wines
Where you live foraging for wine ingredients is not easy, as there are no birch woods. Blackberry is found, and you are not far from moorlands, where you might pick bilberry. Certainly you are nearer to moorland than I am. As you have said, ...
frankbeswick, on 11/23/2017
Foragers' Wines
I do remember picking dandelions as a teenager around Manchester Airport with our former sister in law for dad to make dandelion wine.
I am an avid forager but don' make wine.
Veronica, on 11/23/2017
Mountain Spinach Sour Soup. Delicious Light Recipe
Thanks, Frank. It sounds like something I would like. I'll have to make the tikka masala sauce from scratch, but that's easy to do. :)
Mira, on 11/23/2017
Foragers' Wines
Blackberry belongs to the Rosaceae family, all of which tend to be thorny, except for cultivars specifically bred for thornlessness.
Like you, I have never hunted,there being little need for an urban dweller in England to do so. I have some ...
frankbeswick, on 11/23/2017
Foragers' Wines
We have wild blackberries in this area. But the wild ones have thorns on the branches, and are difficult to go after without coming out with scratches. Another possibility is wild mushrooms, but one must be very careful to only pick certain ...
blackspanielgallery, on 11/22/2017
Mountain Spinach Sour Soup. Delicious Light Recipe
I have just made a really delicious soup in my soup making machine. The ingredients were some spare chicken tika masala sauce [200 grams] a parsnip[200 grams] two tomatoes [100 grams] , a carrot, [100 grams] along with salt, two stock cubes,a ...
frankbeswick, on 11/22/2017
Foragers' Wines
Serious survival skills is part of what foraging is about. Of course, in parts of North America survival skills are vital, such as the forests and the mountains. There are areas of Britain like that, but they are smaller than you have in North ...
frankbeswick, on 11/22/2017
Foragers' Wines
Thanks. I reckoned that US and Canadian readers would think of maple. The field maple does not grow in my area, as it needs alkaline soils, which we don't have where I live.
frankbeswick, on 11/22/2017
Foragers' Wines
So basically ... foragers have some serious survival skills. :)
cmoneyspinner, on 11/22/2017
Foragers' Wines
I think of foraging as a trip for something that is immediately available. I have never thought of tapping a tree and harvesting sap, for I thought it to be a slow process. But from your picture it seems faster than I thought. My image of ...
blackspanielgallery, on 11/22/2017
North of England dialect vocab list
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Shippon also appears in Cheshire. I would think many Americans although English speaking wouldn't understand Cornish dialects, North Eastern and Liverpool Scouse dialects.
The Lambton worm is a case in question.
""He was nay fash to take ...
Veronica, on 11/22/2017
North of England dialect vocab list
More dialect for you. In Yorkshire a cow shed is a shippon and right up the north side of Britain into North East Scotland female sheep are yows.
How is this for North Eastern dialect, which is taken from the folk song,The Lambton Worm" ...
frankbeswick, on 11/22/2017
What to Do With All Those Collected Seashells
Shells are often for sale as souvenirs or to use as crafts. Many people, obviously, don't live near the sea to collect their own. Unfortunately, those types of shells were probably harvested while the animal was alive so the shell could be ...
dustytoes, on 11/21/2017
North of England dialect vocab list
When I was at school,obviously in the North West of England, everyone referred to lunch time as dinner hour, so I am sure that dinner instead of lunch is a northern usage, but as BSG implies, the usage might be found elsewhere. If I recall ...
frankbeswick, on 11/21/2017
North of England dialect vocab list
BSG
This has become a fascinating thread and passing on of information. I think it shows how traditions travel across the globe with people and unite us.
I think but I am not sure that the "dinner /lunch " is a North of England thing. My ...
Veronica, on 11/21/2017