Success Outside of the Classroom

Last weekend, Hugo experienced success outside of the classroom, when he entered into the children's section of the local "Wild Food Challenge" and came 1st!!! Here he is with his creation and an explanation of what he made: WILD GORSE FLOWER TRIO Cordial, Cupcakes and Ice Cubes I wanted to think of a very new dish to enter in the wild food challenge. I thought about all the plants and animals near our house. In the end, I choose gorse because people think of it as a weed, and it would be interesting to see how it tastes. I went and got the gorse flowers from around the Pencarrow coast. I used wire clippers to get the big pieces of gorse and picked all the flowers by hand. It took me two days to pick all the flowers as I did trials for the cordial and the muffins. I didn't get pricked much as I went for the bottom of the plants – a strategy that worked out well. When I got home I had to soak the flowers overnight to make them edible. All the eggs that we used were free range and organic. I was surprised that the gorse flowers smell and taste like coconut. I really like the taste of the cordial and muffins and will carry on making them for my family.