Haws

[Brewforagegrow]

So it looks like the haws are just about ready for picking here, and I'm wondering what you all do with them or if you even bother.

I make leathers with them as it's an easy way to deal with the pips inside, and I've done an infusion in brandy, but wondering what else there is out there.
I think I also tried a ketchup a couple of years ago but it set solid in the bottle. Think I may have done something wrong

[emmac]

i also made fruit leather but would LOVE to make ketchup, that sounds ace. did you make up a recipe?

[Brewforagegrow]

No, it's actually in pam "the jam" corbin's river cottage preserves book. I'll dig out the recipe for you and post it up.

[mushroommatt]

I'm planning to make jelly if i get round to picking them. They look so good this year I think this'll be the one. I've been told it's a much better flavour than cranberry. They probably have a lot of pectin so may need to water them down with something for the ketchup idea.

[cab]

I never seem to find time for them. Every year I think 'this year', but there's always something else that needs processing.

I wonder, is there anything you can do with haws that isn't better done with something else? Do they have a 'unique selling point', as it were?

[Brewforagegrow]

1. They do make a tasty leather.
2. The name will always amuse me just a little bit
3. Probably nothing better than that

[foragingmouse]

I make flour I have wrote about it here Haws ‘my experiment | A mouse in the woods
amouseinthewood.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/haws-my-experiment/

[emmac]

I like the idea of using them in more savoury dishes.