Everyone should know how to make a good wild fruit leather, and wild blueberries make some of the best since they can be harvested in large quantity, and they don’t require any straining to remove seeds or skins. The method is super easy if you aren’t familiar, and a recipe hardly seems necessary, but I’m…
Nannyberries
Syllabubs with Fruit Preserves and Angelica
I love simple, rustic desserts, easy things that can be thrown together. There’s just something about a bowl of good cream, whipped to soft peaks and mixed with fresh berries that just tastes right. On a deeper level, making, enjoying, and especially, reminding others about the simple things is a statement in our modern era…
Nannyberry Pudding
Nannyberry pudding has been the latest wild fruit cypher I’ve been trying to crack. After I made my first batch of nannyberry (Viburnum lentago and similar) butter/puree, I knew it would be a beginning, not an end. I knew reducing the water and cooking the fruit pulp slowly into a thick concentrate will be great…
Nannyberry Mousse
Once I made my nanny berry butter, and then used it to start working on a nannyberry pudding, I wanted to figure out different ways to serve it. The cornstarch pudding (see the recipe here) is a hybrid between pastry cream and thick cornstarch pudding resembling Russian kissel. After the pudding sets, I cut it…
Nannyberry-Maple Butter
I finally remembered to get to the nannyberry patch this year, also known as a patch of landscaping around one of my favorite disc-golf parks. I’d tasted nannyberries before, and liked the sort of raisin-prune-meets-dark-banana flavor they have going on, but I’d never managed to get over and harvest them. I’m unsure of the exact…