Here are the haws I collected today.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Prickly orientals
Chinese hawthorns are trees with pretty wicked spikes. They also have large haws that make great haw-leather. If you are determined to harvest every haw, you have to be prepared to get scratched and spiked on your hands, arms, neck, face and especially, scalp. The spiking will hurt but if you want those haws you'll just keep pushing through, ignoring the pricks the way a bear ignores the stings of the bees when he's raiding nests.
Here are the haws I collected today.
Here are the haws I collected today.
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Oooh! Would be please post a photo showing one cut in half across the axis and another cut across the equator? How do you make the leather? I've tried with British hawthorns but not much luck so far.
btw, thought you would have an appreciation of this
http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2011/06/potato-monster.html
I'll do that once the sun comes up wildcrafty. These are mighty big haws - almost the size of crabapples.
I haven't made the leathers, perhaps you can provide instructions but I'm guessing slice and dry.
Thanks. The wild hawthorns have big seeds in them so there's quite alot of processing involved in making leather. I tried cooking some and pushing the pulp through a sieve to separate out the seeds. Didn't taste very good though.
D'ya want some of these to try? I'll post them to you.
My email is guy10@actrix.co.nz
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