Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Edible Flowers guide to Hollyhocks along with all the Hollyhocks containing recipes presented on this site, with 4 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 Hollyhocks as a major edible flower.

Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks that are native to Europe and Asia.

Hollyhocks are annual, biennial, or perennial plants usually taking an erect, unbranched form. The herbage usually has a coating of star-shaped hairs. The leaf blades are often lobed or toothed, and are borne on long petioles. The flowers may be solitary or arranged in fascicles or racemes. The notched petals are usually over three centimetres wide and may be pink, white, purple, or yellow. The fruit is a schizocarp, a dry disc divided into over 15 sections that contain seeds.

Hollyhock flowers are edible, and are versatile edibles with a mild and slightly sweet taste. They can be used as garnishes, in salad dressings, or in a variety of other dishes. Like other member of the Malvaceae family the leaves and immature seed pods (cheeses) are edible.