Blossoms for Food
Eat Your State Flower
WE ARE ACCUSTOMED to eating broccoli, artichokes, asparagus and cauliflower with never a thought that they are only flower buds cultivated…
Japanese Chrysanthemum Salad
Blanch flowers in acidulated and salted water, drain and dry on towel. Mix with sliced, cold boiled potatoes, artichoke buttons, shrimps…
Apple Blossom Cocktail
Shake pineapple juice, orange and cider together, pour into cocktail glasses and set an apple petal floating on it as sprightly as a…
Peach Blush
JUICE OF 1/2 LEMON 3 PEACH PETALS SPRING WATER With a smooth stick mash peach in bottom of a tumbler or tin cup, put in ice, lemon juice…
Violet Salad
Mix endive with some fresh violet heads, without sterns, and also stir petals into French dressing to go on the salad. The smooth cheeks of…
Violet Jelly
You can go herbaceous in a big way with the official wood violet by throwing a handful of the stemmed fresh flowers into 1 pint of boiling…
Nectar from the Hedge-Row
Now that May's white starry name-flowers are scenting the air with their delicate fragrance, making a sun-flecked glory of bushes and…
Hawthorn Jelly
Select red haws, pick over, stem, wash, and drain. Add 1 cup of water to each pound of fruit and cook until it is a pulp. Pour into a jelly…
Rosatum
"Apicius gives us the recipe for Rosatum: 'Put,' says he, 'some rose leaves into a clean linen cloth; sew it up, and leave it seven days in…
Violet Ice
Put 1/2 pound of cleaned violet petals into 11/2 pints of boiling syrup. Let them infuse for 10 minutes; strain the whole through a sieve…
Jessamine Liqueur
Pick 1/4 pound of jessamine blossoms, and put them in a jar with 2 quarts of spirit of wine. Let the blossoms steep for two days. Prepare…
Other Flower Foods, Plain and Fancy
In the old Illinois Hawthorn glen we sampled many a State flower in the raw, and apples of haw, wild rose and mandrake as well; we chewed…
Cowslips, Rose Geranium, Lemon
Flower salads call for cowslips, nasturtiums, clover, hollyhocks, petals of roses, marigold, daisies, chrysanthemums, water lilies and…
Marigold
"This Marigold is a singular kind of Herbe, sowen in Gardens, as well for the Platte as for the decking of Garlands....” The spicy tasting…
Golden Sauce
(For Hot Puddings) 3 DROPS LEMON JUICE FLECK OF KUMQUAT OR LEMON PEEL I FISTFUL OF MARIGOLD PETALS Cream everything together with a spot of…
Marigold Soup
Boil mutton bones 4-5 hours, cool and remove fat, add an onion with a couple of cloves stuck in, a turnip and two potatoes, peeled and…
Marigold Cheese
An English recipe for making this old-fashioned favorite starts: "Mix the new milk of 7 cows with the cream from the milk of 7 more cows…
Flower Butter
Fancy butters churned with marigolds or fresh petals of roses, violets, orange and lemon blossoms, clover, and others are now coming back…
Apple-Rose-Geranium Jelly
This is just old-fashioned apple jelly delicately flavored with fresh cut rose-geranium leaves. And to make sure that the quaint little…
Rose Geranium Cream
Bring 3 cups of cream to boiling point, add 6 freshly picked rose geranium leaves, cover closely and let stand until cold. Strain cream…
Lemon Verbena
This lemon-scented herb from South America is similar to the rose geranium in two ways: its volatile leaves rather than its flower are used…
Nasturtiums
The use of nasturtium flowers and leaves in salad is so common we'll leave this to anybody's decorative ingenuity, merely suggesting that…
Stuffed Nasturtiums
Chop parsley, chervil, capers and small pickles separately, mix into shredded tuna fish and bind with mayonnaise to thickish paste. Nip the…
Nasturtium Cigarettes
Make fish relish as above, using any cold boiled white fish in place of tuna, if you like, but in any case add a couple of minced anchovies…
Tunasturtium Salad
MINCED PARSLEY MAYONNAISE NASTURTIUM FLOWERS CAPERS SOUR PICKLES, CHOPPED FRENCH DRESSING Break tunny fish with a fork, sprinkle with…
Pickled Nasturtium Seeds
(for salads) Use those that are small and green. Pickle them in salt and water for a week before the picnic, changing water twice. Drain…
Roses
We're so accustomed to admiring flowers for looks and smell we're apt to overlook their taste. But the Romans leaned heavily on them for…
Rose-Perfumed Honey
Put 1/2 pound of fresh damask rose petals in an earthenware dish, add 3 cups boiling water, cover and let stand overnight. Next morning…
Cowslip Salad
Cook and mold cowslip leaves like spinach. Chill, unmold and cover with mayonnaise. Garnish with slices of hardcooked egg, cream cheese…
It's the Berries!
Oddly enough strawberries belong to the same family as roses, and so do blackberries and raspberries, but two varieties of native wild…
Almond Milk
(A 17th Century Recipe) "Take three pints of running water, a handfull of Raisins of the Sun stoned, halfe a handfull of Sorrell, as much…