Wild Cherry is also known as the bird cherry because birds help the reproduction process by spreading the seeds. It seems that not only birds like this ornamental fruit, but so do we. This fruit tastes really yummy in the wild cherry pie we make based on the Foraging with Kids (UK amazon affiliate link) book. Why not try out some of the foraging recipes for yourselves?
Foraging with Kids is a fun, informative and practical book to introduce children and their parents, guardians or teachers to foraging together. It is written by Adele Nozedar, one of the UK’s bestselling foraging authors. After taking out hundreds of families over several last years and finding how smart children to show adults their knowledge, Adele is inspired to write this book.
There are various natural foods that we can consume to stay healthy. In addition, being introduced to the wild and edible food provided by nature, kids will get closer to nature and it will reduce their screen time. Foraging recipes are a wonderful way to inspire kids to cook too.
Through exploration and play, Foraging with Kids encourages readers to get up close to the environment and to gain knowledge and practical understanding of the world around them. There are over 50 projects that help readers to identify the plants easily in parks, forests and hedgerows worldwide. This book also shows that it’s as easy to find plants in the city as in the countryside.
This wonderful educating and fun book is going to be launched on 20th September 2018. Don’t miss it!
Today I would like to share a recipe we got from the book, Wild Cherry Pie. Find out more about great foraging projects as well as other fun activities in Foraging with Kids
Wild Cherry Pie
Ingredients
Pastry
- 350 g plain (all-purpose) flour, We need extra for dusting
- 180 g butter, at room temperature
- 100 g icing sugar
- 2 tbsp ice-cold water
- 3 egg yolk
- pinch of salt
- pinch of ground nutmeg, optional
Filling
- 1 tbsp cornflour or constarch
- 1 tbsp orange or apple juice
- 1 tbsp demerara sugar
- 100 - 350 g caster sugar or superfine sugar
- 1 kg wild cherry, pitted
Instructions
Pastry
- Put all the ingredients except for the egg yolks and water into a food processor and whizz until it looks just like breadcrumbs.
- Add the egg yolks, pulse a few times to blend.
- Drop by drop, Add the ice-cold water until the mixture comes together.
- Put the dough into a surface with some flour and knead it quickly.
- Chill for 1 hour after you pop into a plastic bag.
Filling
- Put the cherries into a mixing bowl
- Add the sugar a few at a time and taste. You can add more sugar if you need it.
- Add the cornflour (cornstarch)
- Add the juice
- Leave to stand.
Pastry and Filling
- Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas Mark 3.
- Put some butter on a 20-cm (8-in) pie dish.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and cut it in half.
- Put some icing (confectioners’) sugar over the work surface. Roll half of the dough into a circle large enough to line the pie dish.
- Line the dish with the pastry and heap the cherry filling on top.
- Roll out the remaining pastry to a 20-cm (8-in) circle, then lay it on the top of the cherries. Press down the edges to seal.
- Make a series of 5 or 6 small slits in the pastry, brush with water and sprinkle the demerara (turbinado) sugar over the top.
- Bake in the hot oven for about 30 minutes, turning once, until golden brown. Leave to cool and serve with cream or ice cream.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
If you like the foraging recipes in the book and here, you should pop to these posts:
- Spring Foraging with Kids from Multicultural Kids Blog
- Foraging Tips, Tricks, and Recipes from Red Ted Art
- Coastal Foraging for Food – Survival Skills for Kids from Kids Craft Room
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Helen
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!
Kelly Walton
Sunday 16th of September 2018
I live in the countryside and always mean to take the boys foraging. There is nothing better than cooking up something delicious that youve picked or grown. I'm going to make a definate point this week of picking fruit and will use your recipe . i will let you know how it was. thank you
Helen
Sunday 16th of September 2018
Do let us know - thanks so much for stopping by as well. Really pleased you are going to have a bash as well x
maggy, red ted art
Tuesday 11th of September 2018
Oh wow! I do love a forage!!!! Yummy!