The plant is completely protected by sharp prickles, but this should not stop anyone from tasting the sweet berries that look like 2 cm large tomatoes.
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Beef tomatoes are mainly used for cooking, they can be filled and baked or used in stews and sauces. Tomatoes are even suitable for jams – alone or mixed with other fruits.
Redcurrants are processed to red fruit soups and summer pudding, juice and ice cream. And many more…
Hardy Begonia: Begonia grandis x Begonia evansiana Kitchen herb and decoration The pink flowers of Hardy Begonia are a pretty decoration in salad or - sugared- on confectionery. They have a lemony flavour. The yellow stamens of the male flower
The small black seeds in the capules can be used as spices, they taste like a mixture of nutmeg and woodruff.
The black-brown seeds can be used as pseudocereals similar to quinoa, for example boiled as a porridge and grounded to a flour as addition to baking flour.
The calamondin has a thin, sweet peel and sour pulp.
The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as leaf vegetables such as spinach. The black-brown seeds can be used as pseudocerals.
The local people like the fruits directly from the shrub, but they can also be processed to confectionery and fruit schnapps.
Billberry cactus has an impressive growth height of up to 4 meters, and yet it produces only very small, sweet tasting fruits.
The soft, juicy pulp tastes aromatic of fir, it is tart and resinous, yet very sweet.
Beech can be used in many ways: the fruits called “ beechnuts “ as nuts or oil fruit and coffee substitute, leaves as salad, wood as smoke aroma.
The edible fruits of Sinofranchetia are very similar to grapes, but less sweet and with a little leathery skin.
Aloe vera has been used for some time past in green smoothies, shakes, cocktails, ice cream, desserts and for some other purposes, although the plant is said to be poisonous.
The flesh of this persimmon reminded me of a dried date: it was brown and soft, tasted sweet, perhaps caramel-like, but unfortunately also „not quite fresh“.
Together with extracts of other flowers, violets form the basis of the violet liqueur “Parfait Amour”.
Like their red relatives, white currants are popular garden plants, but their fruits are sweeter.
Miracle berry has a unique effect on our sense of taste: it superimposes taste impressions in a way that everything is perceived as being sweet.
The slightly salty tasting leaves and stems can be eaten raw as salad or cooked, e.g. as spinach or sautéed.
Rosehips can be used to make fruit tea and Hagebuttenmark. Dried and ground, they even replace flour and can be mixed with it.
After thorough cooking and rinsing, the flowers are also edible and are served with oil and salt.
Chervil tastes like aniseed or tarragon. It is used to season soups, salads, sauces and herb butter and is one of the seven herbs in Frankfurt’s green sauce.
A typical attribute of the bright golden yellow tomato variety ‚Indian Moon‘ is the fine blush of the very ripe fruits up to red „cheeks“.
The kohlrabi stem can be eaten raw and cooked, for example diced and steamed or boiled.
This variety of an oakleaf lettuce stands out for its duckbill-like elongated leaf tips. It has a slightly nutty flavor.
Parsley is used as a fresh, aromatic kitchen herb, added to savory cold dishes or stews and sauces just before the end of cooking.
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