Eat Your Flowers

                Eat Your Flowers



Sweet and delicious, edible flowers are
gaining in popularity among today’s top
restaurants and bakeries.


Edible flowers are ideal for enhancing the visual appeal
of an entrée or dessert without compromising the integrity
of the flavor.
Edible flowers are not only beautiful to look at, they can
add an interesting range of tastes as well!

Flowers have traditionally been used in many types of
cooking for centuries.If you step out into your garden you
will be astounded at the range of edible flowers.
Flowers can be used in salads, puddings and drinks as well as
to decorate cakes and other confectionery.
Larger flowers such as Courgette flowers are popular in Italian
cooking where they are stuffed with a filling and shallow fried,
or dipped in a batter and deep fried.
early in the season you can grow chives, red broad bean
flowers and bi-coloured purple pea as well as rocket and violas
for their flowers.
 All hybrids of roses can also be used in a startling array
of recipes. The petals can be made into jams and syrups or
used in cakes cookies and eaten raw with either sweet
or savoury dishes.


Some Edible Flowers

Allium Apple Blossom Borage Chrysanthemum


Banana Cornflower Elder Geranium


Honeysuckle Paeony Sunflower Sorrel



 




                    


 


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