
Explore the history and identification of edible flowers, learn to integrate them into cooking for health benefits, and discover over 50 varieties with new recipes.
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Trace the long history of edible flowers from ancient Greece and Rome to the Victorian era, noting rosewater, saffron, and candied blooms used in salads, soups, and rituals.
Participate in the edible flowers game to test what you remember about edible vs non-edible blooms and learn that many garden flowers are edible and can sweeten dishes.
Explore how edible flowers grown organically at home or locally support sustainable eating as prices fall, while they should be eaten the day they're picked and kept chemical-free.
Identify poisonous flowers and their toxic parts, and avoid ingesting any listed plants such as foxglove, calla lily, hydrangea, and amaryllis.
Grow your own edible flowers at home with non-GMO seeds, or collect seeds for common edible blooms like dandelion and daisy from green areas, and avoid chemical sprays.
Identify edible flowers and beware pollen allergies, pesticides, and contamination. Avoid roadside or florist sources unless organic; wash, refrigerate, remove the white part of the petal, and introduce flavors gradually.
Explore three commonly used edible flowers, lavender, dandelion, and rose, and learn their health benefits, flavor profiles, and wide uses in teas, cooking, desserts, and cosmetics.
Learn to make candied flowers for cake decorations by coating pansies, rose petals, marigold petals, and blue flowers with egg white and water, dusting with caster sugar, then drying overnight.
Create lavender infused shortbread using a traditional english recipe; blend butter with lavender buds, sugar, and flour, roll into logs, chill, slice, bake until pale golden.
Test your knowledge of edible flowers by listing and identifying which are edible from the flower list, and prepare to download a recipe book for cooking with incredible edible flowers.
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What do you see when you look at a beautiful bed of flowers?
I see limitless possibilities of edible flowers that can be used to create soups, teas, drinks, biscuits, cakes, flavourings, infact edible flowers can be a part of any meal that you have. I am Tania Magdalene and I have been a master herbalist for over 20 years and I bring my expertise and experience through my trials and errors for you to benefit from in this incredible edible flowers course.
In this fascinating course you will learn
the history of edible flowers,
you will learn to identify edible flowers and of course the inedible ones,
you will learn how to integrate them into your cooking and culinary life
you will also learn some of the health benefits associated with them.
You will learn about the taste profiles of the different flowers and how you can use that to your culinary advantage
It is a time of massive reawakening to the natural plant kingdom that exists around us. Herbalism and interest in alternative methods of food production which by the way were the ways we used to do it before we all became so heavily reliant upon the supermarkets, is rising. People don’t want to be eating gmo food or food covered in pesticides, the consumer is looking for a greener, healthier living style and as we are what we eat, it is now becoming a way of choice for many.
With over 50 different edible flowers featured in the course you will also learn some recipes that you can use them in so that you can genuinely integrate these incredible edible flowers into your daily life and there is a beautiful downloadable recipe book included too. See you in the course and I am available throughout for learning support.
Enjoy the flowers
With honour and gratitude
Tania