Food Plants - some you can grow in your yard and a recipe!

Eat Local! Grow your own indigenous (local wild) food.

                                                                                                           

What are the local (Shuswap) food plants?                                           

Blackcap (rubus leucodermis)

Blue Elderberry (sambucus canadensis) – fresh/pie/etc.

Chokecherry (prunus virgiana) – juice/syrup/jelly/dried n.

Hawthorn (crataegus douglasii) - jelly, dried n.

Hazelnut (corylus cornuta) – nuts, fresh or dried

High Bush Cranberry (viburnum opulus) – jelly, mix with Saskatoons n.

Mountain Ash (sorbus sitchensis) jelly

Oregon Grape (mahonia aquifolium) – tangy jelly, dried cakes n.

Raspberry (rubus idaeus) – fresh/jam/jelly/dried n.

Red Osier Dogwood (cornus stolonifera)– mash with saskatoon or chokecherry n.

Rose (rosa nutkana/woodsii) – jam/jelly/dried n/

Saskatoon (amelanchier alnifolia) – fresh/canned/frozen/pies/jam/syrup, dried n

Soapberry/Soopolallie (shepherdia canadensis) – Indian ice cream, drink

Thimbleberry (rubus parviflorus)

Wild Strawberry (fragaria vesca/virginniana) – fresh/jam/dried n.

n. native use

From: Food Plants of Interior First Peoples, Turner, Royal British Columbia Museum

RECIPES

Rose Hip Puree

1 kg (2 lb) rose hips

500ml (2 c.) boiling water

Prepare hips, add water and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes. Mash and sieve, add sweetener and simmer 10 minutes, preserve in jars.

p. 167 Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada

Blue Elderberry – Apple Pie

 250 ml (1 c.) blue elderberries                                    

250 ml (1 c.) apples, sliced (cored and peeled)

30 ml (2 T ) tapioca starch

50 ml ( ¼ c.?) sweetener

5 ml. (cinnamon

2 ml (½ t) nutmeg

pastry

p. 56 Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada

A list of resources/books

C FOOD PLANTS

1. (BC Native Food Guide (interior) Health Canada – availability?)

2. Drink in the Wild, Teas, Cordial, Jams and More, Hilary Stewart (BC author)

3. Edible Flowers, desserts and drinks, Cathy Wilkinson Barash

4. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains and neighbouring Territory, Willard, Terry

5. Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada, Turner (incl. recipes)

6. Edible Wild Plants, A North American Filed Guide, Elias,Thomas and Dykemen, Peter

7. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples, Turner

8. Guide to Common Edible Plants of BC, Szczawinski and Hardy

8b. Gathering what the Great Nature Provided, Ksan book people

8c. Interior Salish Food Preparation (Lak-La Hai-ee), Surtees (reference copy in Salmon Arm Library)

9. Native Foods ands Nutrition, Health Canada, from Medical Services Branch, Communications      Directorate (nutritional tables)

10. Native Indian Wild game, fish, and wild foods cookbook,

11. The Neighbourhood Forager, a Guide for the Wild Food Gourmet, Robert Henderson (recipes at end of each chapter)

12. Northwest Berry Cookbook, Kathleen Desmond Stang

13. Northwest Wild Berries, Underhill

14. Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Gary Palmer

15. Some Useful Wild Plants, David Manning

16. Wild Berries of the Pacific Northwesst, JE (Ted) Underhill

17. Wild Coffee and Tea Substitutes of Canada, Turner

18. The Wild Food Gourmet, fresh and savoury food from nature, Anne Gardon (great food photos)

19. Wild Harvet, Edible Plants of the Facific Northwest, Terry Domico

20. Wild Plums in Brandy, wild food cookery, Sylvia Boorman

21. The Wild, Wild Cookbook, a guide for youing wild food foragers, Jean George