Welcome to Skovkær! This is your gateway to the world of wild food and foraging. Here, you’ll find a variety of delicious recipes made with wild ingredients, along with blog posts full of inspiration, tips, and practical advice to help you get started on your own foraging journey. At the top of the page, you’ll find links to our seasonal wild recipes. You can also dive into the blog to discover more about edible plants, foraging techniques, and creative ways to cook with nature’s pantry.

We hope Skovkær inspires you to explore the outdoors, try new ingredients, and enjoy the beauty of cooking with wild food.

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Rose hips are the fruits of the rose flower plant. Rose hips replace the fallen flowers when the temperatures lower. Rose hips are edible and are shaped round or oval. The color of rose hips is normally bright red to orange – the darker the red the riper.

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The sweet violet (Viola odorata) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. It belongs to the violet family, which includes over 500 different species. It is also known by the names of wood violet, common violet, florist’s violet, English violet, and garden violet. Odorata, which is part of the Latin name of
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A basket full of black trumpet mushrooms and funnel chanterelles. Foraging for edible wild mushrooms in nature is pure joy! You come home after a successful mushroom hunt with a basket full of delicious, fresh mushrooms. That means you can prepare a wonderful home cooked mushroom meal. Sometimes you are lucky enough to find more
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Desserts
Elderflower Ice Cream is a delightful and refreshing dessert that perfectly captures the essence of summer. This delicate ice cream combines the subtle, floral flavor of elderflowers with a rich and creamy base, creating an exquisite taste experience. Elderflower heads are one of nature’s small wonders, and when used in this ice cream, you get
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Drinks
One of the most popular ways of using elderflower heads is by making them into an elderflower cordial. The elderflower cordial can be drunk with still or sparkling water, added to an elderflower gin cocktail, made into aromatic icing, or used in these Elderflower and Lemon Cupcakes. The whitish elderflowers decorate the summer landscape and
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Bread & Cakes
Simple, green, sweet, stinging nettle cake. This stinging nettle cake is for everyone who loves cakes and wants to try something new and delicious. The stinging nettle is despised by many, for its stinging reputation. But stinging nettles are so much more than that. Nettles can be used in countless dishes both savoury and sweet.
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