Recipes

Recipes with wild herbs

I’ll be posting my favourite recipes here bit by bit.
Therefore, this will not be anything that I’ve just read somewhere, but only those recipes that I’ve tried myself and that I’ve enjoyed …

By popular demand from the large group of participants on the guided tour around the chapel hill of Wurmlingen near Stuttgart on 26th August 2018,
One of the tastiest ways to get rid of Ground-elder, also called Goutweed.

Ground-elder buns

For about 20 small buns of 5 cm (2 inches) diameter you need

  • 1 large roll of puff pastry from the cooling shelf
  • 1 pack of cream cheese (also vegan possible)
  • about 20 large ground-elder leaves
  • some salt, some pepper

Tip: use vegetable seasoning salt and mix in half a clove of garlic, finely chopped.

  1. Wash the leaves, spin dry, cut off as much of the leaf stalks as possible and chop finely.
  2. Roll out the puff pastry to approx. 20×30 cm (8×12 inches)
  3. Spread with cream cheese, sprinkle with ground-elder, season
  4. Roll up lengthwise
  5. Cut into slices about 1-1.5 cm (1/2 inch)
  6. Place on baking paper
  7. bake 180° in a fan oven for approx. 10-15 minutes.

Ground-elder lemonade / Ground-elder Royal

  • For about 2 litres, you need
  • 20 large Ground-elder leaves with long leaf stalks
  • 1 litre apple juice (unfiltered, naturally cloudy
  • 1 organic lemon
  • 1 – 2 litres water (still or sparkling)
  • Tip: tastes wonderfully refreshing with a dash of champagne
    („Ground-elder royal“)
  1. Wash the leaves
  2. Prick them with a sharp knife and tie them together
  3. Put them in a large jug with the help of a wooden spoon
  4. Add the sliced lemon and fill up with the apple juice
  5. Leave in the fridge for at least 3 hours, preferably overnight.
  6. Take out the ground-elder leaves, squeeze them out and top up with water
  7. Mix according to taste.
Why „Ground-elder royal“?

In German Ground-elder is called Giersch (pronounced „geersh“)
Because Giersch and Kir sound similar, I call the champagne version „Giersch royal“ in reference to the original Kir royal.
Do you have any idea what to call the Ground-elder lemonade with alcohol so that it sounds similar to Ground-elder? Please do not hesitate to tell me!

With courtesy of the publisher Hädecke

Do you fancy healthy food that is quick and easy to prepare and, above all, delicious? Unfortunately, the cookbook by my wife and medical doctor for herbal medicine Dr.Susanne Bihlmaier is not yet available in English, but in German it is a bestseller and already in its 7th edition. She makes cooking fun because all her recipes have been tried and tested by patients, for example, with exhaustion syndrome, who want to improve their health but only have the strength and time for super-fast and easy recipes. It also contains exciting industry-independent background information, short and compact, as gripping as a thriller. As I said, it’s a bestseller for a reason. Tip: just buy it in German and translate it using artificial intelligence like DeepL and enjoy!
P.S. Or if you can recommend English publishers to us who also has their mouth watering …