Sweets and Syrups
This is the dessert section, although since my favorite dessert is simply berries and cream or berries and a simple syrup, there are more fruit syrup recipes than full-on desserts. I use syrups to make homemade sodas, sorbets, granitas or to flavor ice creams; they’re also great for glazing meats.
CREAMY THINGS
- Greek Oregano Ice Cream
- The best Black Walnut Ice Cream ever! Trust me.
- Pine Nut Ice Cream, with desert honey
- Elderberry Creme Fraiche Ice Cream, good with any seedy fruit
- Blackberry Panna Cotta, also works with raspberries
- Lemon Verbena Panna Cotta, also good with mint, lavender or basil
JAMMY FRUITY THINGS
- Mulberry or Blackberry Sorbet
- Gooseberry Sorbet, for wild or domestic gooseberries
- Mulberry-Key Lime Compote, great with panna cotta or ice cream
- Fig Jam with Ouzo
BAKED THINGS
- Black Walnut Snowball Cookies, with orange flower water
- Greek butter cookies with wild fennel
- Wild Pine Nut Cookies ,with rosemary and acorn flour
- Classic Christmas Spritz Cookies (hosted on Simply Recipes)
- Italian Olive Oil Cake, with fennel pollen or rosemary
- Wild Plum Pie
- Mini Berry Pies, made in ramekins. Good for salal berries, huckleberries, blueberries, or really any non-seedy wild berry
- Guinness and Molasses Bread (Hosted on Simply Recipes)
- Huckleberry Muffins, also good with blueberries
- Buttermilk Huckleberry Cake, adapted from my friend Heidi Swanson
RANDOM OTHER THINGS
- How to Make Sykomaitha, or Greek Fig Cakes
- Elderflower Liqueur
- Elderberry Liqueur
SYRUPS
- Blackberry Syrup, also works for raspberries
- Making Fig Syrup
- How to Make Prickly Pear Syrup
- Spruce or Fir Tree Syrup, made with the fresh growing tips
- Sassafras Syrup, made with the green twig bark
- Homemade Root Beer Syrup, with real sassafras root bark
- Elderberry Syrup, made without added water
- Elderflower Syrup or Cordial
- How to Eat Wild Gooseberries, which have nasty spines on them
