On 8/21/2022 at 7:54 PM, ElsieD said:
They taste a bit like honey. They have a lot of hard seeds so a seed-adverse person would not enjoy them, I don't think. However, they make for a tasty complete or jam if you strain out the seeds. If you have an Ikea near you, they sell cloudberry jam.
I would never have made a comparison of cloudberries and honey. They both have floral and bitter flavour notes, so once you cook the cloudberries, the similarities may become more pronounced. I can't remember the last time I had cooked cloudberries (jams/compotes) though. Not that I don't like it. Fresh or uncooked berries are just in a different league.
Cloudberries have a very characteristic flavour, which people seem to either love or hate, but l really don't know how to explain the flavor to someone who's unfamiliar with it. The thing I love about them is the balance between sweetness, sourness and bitterness. Cooking them, or adding too much sugar, alter this fragile balance.
In other foraging news, chanterelle season has been amazing so far in my area:
I've probably picked about 10kg of cleaned chanterelles so far, so now I'm stocked up on dried, cooked and (my take on) creamed chanterelles. No luck finding any Boletus edulis yet though...
