Xylaria
Slightly Addicted
- Messages
- 278
- Points
- 470
First raid mates garden for a good handful of mahonia fruit.
Wash fruit add same by volume in sugar. Heat until sugar disovles and fruit softens. cool over night, mash fruit of seeds and removes seeds with jambag/net curtains/pair of socks. Store.
Pick two big elder flowers per person. Shake spiders off unless think they are tasty
Make basic batter. 1 egg and enough self raising flour and milk to be thick and well mixed.
Heat oil in pan
cover flowerheads in batter and deep fry until batter is cooked. Leave the stalk up wards
cover plate in syrup , and place flower heads stalk up on plate. Eat by holding stalk and dripping syrup down chin. Dont eat the stalk.