Sea Buckthorn

[Prudie]

On great British menu there's a dessert made with sea buckthorn. The judges knew it but I don't. What is it (presumably a plant)and what does it taste like anyone know?

[DTCwordfan]

Just talking about it with my mater as it resembles a pyranthus in her garden....never eaten it though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-buckthorn

Yes, we are watching it too, Mastermind coming but I am heading to my local.

[seadogg]

We have great thickets of it on the cliffs below us but have never heard of anone using any part in cooking. Deer hide among the bushes as its a safe place.

[DTCwordfan]

now recipes for venison and sea buckthorn, seadogg. the juicest fruit come off the bottom of bushes nearest the sea and accessible to a RIB.........I am told (lol).

[Prudie]

It didn't go down too well. DT's link doesn't suggest it's very nice.

[HowardKennitby]

I remember Ray Mears doing one of his programmes which contained a section on that. The berries are apparently very good food but taste quite bitter.

[EcclesCake]

I've had it in a Sea Buckthorn Fizz, like a Bucks Fizz but not as nice.

It was quite sour with a slight aroma of vomit.

If you don't want to go foraging you can buy bottles of it for about £15 if I remember rightly.

[spikeyboy]

weve got some on my reserve here in Leeds. A bit like a redcurrannt, bright orange berries, vicious thorns. Lots of fruit in Autumn but difficult to pick without squishing the fruit and getting spiked. its a very sour but Hugh F - Whittingstall recomends using in sauces with game like cranberry.

[DTCwordfan]

So the British equivalent of the Durian, eccles.

If you haven't smelt that delicacy, don't!