Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Edible Flowers guide to Hawthorn along with all the Hawthorn containing recipes presented on this site, with 1 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Hawthorn as a major edible flower.

Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna, (also known as May, Maythorn, Quickthorn, and Haw) is a small tree growing to some 10m tall which is a member of the Rosaceae (rose) family. It is native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia where it generally produces flowers in May and early June. The flowers develop to numerous small bright-red fruit known as Haws which are an important foodstuff for wild birds.

The hawthorn is one of the archetypical hedgerow trees of the British countryside. In the images above the tree is shown as it is in spring (with its white intensely-scented flowers) and as it is in autumn, full of the red berries that birds love so much.

What may surprise you is that young hawthorn leaves are extremely tasty and make a great addition to any salad (but only worth picking the really young ones). The leaf buds are also edible and are collected in the West of England to make springtime puddings. The berries are also edible and are very high in vitamin C and can be made into jams, jellies and preserves. The flower buds are also edible can be made into a spring pudding.