Celtnet Guide to Edible Wild Foods Beginning with 'S'

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Wild Food Guide — 'S'



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Welcome to the Celtnet guide to wild foods. As this recipe site has grown it has become obvious that to allow people to replicate some of the more ancient recipes on this site (especially from the Ancient, Roman and Medieval periods it is necessary to list modern alternatives but also to produce a guide so that the curious can find the original (often wild) ingredients for themselves. These pages are an attempt at bringing all these potentially useful and often forgotten wild foods together into one place. To use this guide simply click on the first letter of your term above or below. Alternativey why not just browse through the terms. You may well find something that surprises you!

This page covers wild foods beginning with the letter 'S' and includes both common and scientific names.

marker button  Saccharina latissima marker button  Saffron Milk Cap marker button  Sailor's Tobacco
marker button  St Georges Mushroom marker button  St John's Plant marker button  Salicornia europea
marker button  Salicornia sp marker button  Sally Rhubarb marker button  Salsify
marker button  Salsify (Purple) marker button  Saltspray Rose marker button  Sambucus nigra
marker button  Samphire (Marsh) marker button  Samphire (Rock) marker button  Sand Mustard
marker button  Sandthorn marker button  Sanguinary marker button  Sarothamnus scoparius
marker button  Sauce-alone marker button  Scaber Stalk marker button  Scaly Polypore
marker button  Scaly Wood Mushroom marker button  Scotch Bonnet marker button  Scotch Bonnet
marker button  Scotch Broom marker button  Scottish Pepper marker button  Scurvy Cress
marker button  Scurvywort marker button  Scurvy-grass (Common) marker button  Sea Asparagus
marker button  Sea Bean marker button  Sea Beet marker button  Sea Belt
marker button  Seaberry marker button  Sea-buckthorn marker button  Sea Kale
marker button  Sea Lettuce marker button  Sea Oak marker button  Sea Ouler
marker button  Sea Purslane marker button  Seatang marker button  Sea Tomato
marker button  Seakale marker button  Sea-ware marker button  Sea Wrack
marker button  Serviceberry marker button  Shaggy Ink Cap marker button  Shaggy Mane
marker button  Shamrock marker button  Sheep's Head mushroom marker button  Sheep's Sorrel
marker button  Shepherd's Purse marker button  Sheriff Pink marker button  Shuttlecock Fern
marker button  Silene vulgaris marker button  Silver Birch marker button  Silverweed
marker button  Sisymbrium nasturtium-aquaticum marker button  Sisymbrium officinale marker button  Sloe
marker button  Small Celandine marker button  Smartweed marker button  Smooth Sow Thistle
marker button  Smyrnium marker button  Smyrnium olustarum marker button  Snakeweed
marker button  Sneezeweed marker button  Sneezewort marker button  Sneezewort Yarrow
marker button  Snowball Tree marker button  Snow-in-the-mountain marker button  Soldier's Woundwort
marker button  Soldiers and Sailors marker button  Sonchus oleraceous marker button  Sorbus aria
marker button  Sorbus aucuparia marker button  Sorrel marker button  Sour Weed
marker button  Sowberry marker button  Sow Thistle marker button  Spanish Chestnut
marker button  Sparassis crispa marker button  Spinach Dock marker button  Sponge Mushroom
marker button  Spotted Dog marker button  Spruce marker button  Starflower
marker button  St Benedict's Herb marker button  Stellaria media marker button  Stemless Thistle
marker button  Stinging Nettles marker button  Stork's Bill marker button  Strawberry (Wild)
marker button  Strawberry (Wood) marker button  Stump Mushroom marker button  Stumpy
marker button  Struthiopteris germanica marker button  Succory marker button  Sugar Kelp
marker button  Suillus grevillei marker button  Sulphur Polypore marker button  Sulphur Shelf
marker button  Summer Truffle marker button  Sweetbread Mushroom marker button  Sweet Chestnut
marker button  Sweet Cicely marker button  Sweet Gale marker button  Sweet Galingale
marker button  Sweet Violet marker button  Sweet Woodruff marker button  Symphytum officinale

Example Entry

Below, you will find an example wild food entry produced randomly from our database:

Wild Food Entry For: Heather

This is the description page for Heather (Calluna vulgaris) and includes a description as well as an image, if available and a selection of recipes from this site that relates to the wild foodstuff: Heather.

heath heather

Almost all Britain's heathland is covered in heather which is generally heathland heather (Calluna vulgaris). This is a rather scrubby shrub, the young tips of which can be used to flavour ale or mead (see this recipe for heather ale and this recipe for heather mead).

The flowers are also edible and make a colourful addition to a hedgerow salad or a boiled pudding. If you have an acid well-drained soil then you can use heather to cover a wall or as part of a rockery whih the benefit that you can use the flowers in your cookery!


Recipes Utilizing Heather

Heather Mead
Heather Ale
Midsummer Mead
Myrtle and Blueberry Pudding
Roast Grouse à la Rob Roy
All-grain Gruit Ale


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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Mushrooms and Fungi Edible Seaweeds

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