Today is Thursday the 31st of March and we spent a lovely morning weeding lots of sycamore seedlings from one of the beds. Then we moved indoors after picking some herbs that are known to be good for colds. We thought it would be interesting to tase the different plants raw for a truly natural experience... but we didnt consider the fact that White Horehound was included in our array... it is extremely bitter and not particularly friendly to the tastebuds! We then tried out different herbal teas with the plants.
We picked various plants and flowers, including Stinging nettle, Thyme, Angelica leaves and stem, Primrose, Lungwort, White Horehound, Coltsfoot flower and root.
You will be able to see these in the photos below, as well as some of the herby folk! (From left: Vicky, Danny, Kasia and Micki) Joce was also here, outside the photo.
Coltsfoot flower: perfumed taste, chewy, astringent (drying), soothing, sweet and bitter (depends).Saffron.
Egg yolk sweetness until bitterer middle part. Hint of banana. Hint of straw.
Coltsfoot root: blunt solid, compare with a mild mushroom e.g. oyster mushroom.
Angelica: sweet when the sharpness goes, but bitter like watercress.
Marrubium vulgare: Super bitter! Strong flavour, sharp, astringent, slightly aromatic.
Nettle: fresh.../fishy?
Lungwort: slight sweetness, mild lettuce flavour.
Red primrose: not much taste, mild berry sweet.
Yellow primrose: taste comes on slowly, mushy sweet, hint of butter and butternut.
Thyme: strongly warm. More overpowering in its fresh form.
Lungwort: No taste. Lettuce was mentioned.
Nettle: chews just like salad leaves, something intangible like papaya. Aftertaste of salmon was mentioned.
red primrose tea: a light caramel water, trace of candy.
horehound/angelica tea: warm but a sickly-sweet hits you. Sort of sour passion fruit when held in the mouth.
