I love cooking with foraged ingredients , but I especially love it when I can do something playfulness with wildflowers ( wildflower mead , anyone ? ) While the season for novel wildflowers is generally middling short , they are easy todry on a dry screenand store for purpose throughout the twelvemonth . Dried edible flowers are utter for using in an wild flower herbal extract , and when I came across the recipe for “ Flower Power ” tea in the bookForaging & Feasting : A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbookby Dina Falconi , I knew I had to make it !
This wild flower herbal extract tea leaf formula call for four different flower : elderflower , wild rose , red clover , and anise Hyssopus officinalis . I had all of them dried already , with the exclusion of anise Hyssopus officinalis , which I had arise clean in my herbaceous plant garden .
Many unlike flower varieties can be used if you do n’t have these finicky ones on hired hand . Some deterrent example of other blossom that would shape well in this recipe are chamomile , bee balm , blowball , violet , raving mad Citrus bergamia , lemon balm , and raging mint .
Herbal infusions are generally made with dried herb and flowers , as that will make a more strong tea . That sound out , refreshful herbaceous plant and blossom do add aromatics which can be quite nice . The fresh anise hyssop really made this flower infusion shine !
TheForaging & Feastingbook also includes an entire part of gorgeous plant maps of all sort of uncivilised edible , illustrate by Wendy Hollender . Here is one for anise hyssop .
Wildflower Herbal Infusion Tea Recipe
This recipe could n’t be easy as long as you have the wildflowers on hand . If you do n’t have the herb and are n’t able to scrounge them , you’re able to always buy them fromMountain Rose Herbs , my preferent seat to buy constitutional , high quality , dry herb .
I enjoyed simply stream this wild flower herbal infusion over ice and drinking it on a hot daylight . The tonic anise hyssop that I used when making this formula really made it special . This is a afternoon tea that I ’ll make again and again during the wildflower time of year !
I really love Dina Falconi ’s book , Foraging & Feasting . There are so many formula that I want to try , I had a hard sentence choosing which one to make first ! The illustrated plant maps are beautiful , and the formula are in astuteness and with endless variations . It ’s different than any other wildcrafted food recipe Word that I ’ve encountered , and should be a part of every forager ’s library !
What is your favorite thing to make with edible wildflowers ?
Herbal Tea Recipes
Here are a few more of my favorite herbal tea recipe for you to enjoy !
Wildflower “Flower Power” Herbal Infusion Tea
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