How to Naturally Preserve Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum)

Full Recipe Below. Taken from my Eat Like A Viking! Cookbooks (volume 2). More recipes on my website www.saxonforager.co.uk
Ingredients:
Salt
Wild garlic
Method:
In a large mixing bowl or trough, layer garlic leaves and flowers with a small amount of salt.
Leave for several hours.
Massage and squash the leaves, working the salt into the leaves and leave for a couple more hours.
Transfer to a bowl or suitable container and weigh the leaves down with something heavy. Leave overnight.
Tightly pack the garlic into a jar and weigh the contents down using a bottle filled with water, squeezing the juice from the garlic and ensuring all the leaves are fully submersed in the extracted liquid. If there isn’t enough liquid top up with spring water, not tap.
Leave to ferment for a minimum of one week before consuming

[@mrcreativequarter6087]

Amazing! I was looking for this recipe as I have some wild garlic! Thank you!

[@deborahsimpson6103]

Hey there Craig. Just come across your channel. Great 👍 So I've just picked mine from the garden. Tried freezing but OH my it's contaminated the fridge. Do you think it's still OK to do this now ot been frozen overnight? 😅

[@Saxonforager]

Ive never tried it to be honest so I couldn’t say

[@deborahsimpson6103]

@Saxonforager I've gave it a go and another small jar with olive oil.😬🤞there's some left to pick I think 🤔 I'll dry them. Thanks for getting back to me so prompt happy foraging. Oh any thoughts on NETTLES I've managed to cultivate a nice wee crop in the patch with the garden so I want to use them while young

[@Saxonforager]

yeah just use the nettles young. Nice in pancakes or as tea (think There’s a recipe on my website www.saxonforager.co.uk or in my cookbooks on Amazon) The older nettles make good cordage

[@Saxonforager]

@@deborahsimpson6103 yeah just use the nettles young. Nice in pancakes or as tea (think There’s a recipe on my website www.saxonforager.co.uk or in my cookbooks on Amazon) The older nettles make good cordage

[@deborahsimpson6103]

@@Saxonforager oh wow! I've never heard of cordage. pankaes sounds fab and a change from my usual rissoto. looking forward to looking at you recipies Thank you 🤗🌾🍀🌼

[@clairemullin249]

Do you store it in the fridge, in a cupboard?

[@Saxonforager]

Cupboard usually

[@clairemullin249]

Nice, thanks

[@emcarver8983]

Anglo saxons and vikings didn't have mason jars 😆

[@Saxonforager]

So glad you came along. We were all using mason jars for years thinking they were historically accurate 🤦‍♂️

[@Saxonforager]

You could use a clay pot (I have done). I prefer modern methods for preservation as there is less risk for things like botulism

[@emcarver8983]

Viking or Anglo Saxon?

[@WyrdWessex]

Can be used by either. It’s just a preservation method. We have no recipes from the time