{"id":11734,"date":"2016-04-30T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-eat-seeds-and-leaves\/"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:09:51","slug":"gardens-eat-seeds-and-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-eat-seeds-and-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens: eat seeds and leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEven the tiniest urban garden or balcony can offer up\u00a0a larder of edible\u00a0treasures. One expert reveals her top easy-to-grow ingredientsSeveral years ago, I bought a peach tree, anticipating fruit dripping with golden juice come summer. One or two reached a sort of ripeness at times, but even they didn\u2019t taste of much.I was on the verge of cutting the tree down when a friend mentioned that she\u2019d read that the leaves themselves had a flavour. So when I got home, I boiled some into a hot, simple syrup. The strength of the sweet, almondy scent was astonishing and magical: here was a crop of flavour, not bulk, and there soon followed almond-flavoured liqueurs, panna cottas, rice puddings and ice-creams. The tree got a stay of execution, and the experience made me wonder what other garden produce holds similar hidden depths. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Even the tiniest urban garden or balcony can offer up\u00a0a larder of edible\u00a0treasures. One expert...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-33g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41452,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/by-gum-the-hidden-scents-in-your-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":11734,"position":0},"title":"By gum! 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