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Aug. 2nd, 2015 10:24 amSo, this weekend is Lammas/Lughnasadh/Freyfaxi (delete as appropriate) and is thus the first harvest holiday! Traditionally, I celebrate by baking bread, but I am going out of town later this week and won't have time to eat all the bread before it goes bad. Which would feel unfortunate. So I am celebrating by harvesting something else.
There's actually a surprising amount that's harvestable around my house right now. We have blackberries growing everywhere, of course, and there's a few apple trees in the neighborhood that don't appear to actually belong to anyone and are currently full of apples. But I am a weirdo, so I went out and harvested a bunch of Queen Anne's Lace.
Did you know you can make jelly from Queen Anne's Lace? Because I did not until a few days ago, but I am totally going to do it. Though it's going to have to wait until the tea jelly is eaten, so I'm going to dry the flowers and use the dried version to make the jelly. Since you essentially make a tea with them and then make jelly from that, I don't anticipate this being a problem.
And now I know two new exciting facts: 1) you can make jelly from Queen Anne's Lace, and 2) Queen Anne's Lace looks a lot like Poison Hemlock. So now I know how to very carefully tell those two plants apart.*
I'll let you know how the jelly comes out once I make it.
*The easiest way is to bruise the leaves. Queen Anne's Lace smells carroty (being a plant in the wild carrot family), while hemlock evidently smells nasty. Also, Queen Anne's Lace has hairy stems and doesn't get as big. The More You Know!
There's actually a surprising amount that's harvestable around my house right now. We have blackberries growing everywhere, of course, and there's a few apple trees in the neighborhood that don't appear to actually belong to anyone and are currently full of apples. But I am a weirdo, so I went out and harvested a bunch of Queen Anne's Lace.
Did you know you can make jelly from Queen Anne's Lace? Because I did not until a few days ago, but I am totally going to do it. Though it's going to have to wait until the tea jelly is eaten, so I'm going to dry the flowers and use the dried version to make the jelly. Since you essentially make a tea with them and then make jelly from that, I don't anticipate this being a problem.
And now I know two new exciting facts: 1) you can make jelly from Queen Anne's Lace, and 2) Queen Anne's Lace looks a lot like Poison Hemlock. So now I know how to very carefully tell those two plants apart.*
I'll let you know how the jelly comes out once I make it.
*The easiest way is to bruise the leaves. Queen Anne's Lace smells carroty (being a plant in the wild carrot family), while hemlock evidently smells nasty. Also, Queen Anne's Lace has hairy stems and doesn't get as big. The More You Know!
