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Dried Sweet Gale
Latin name: Myrica gale
Common name(s): Sweet Gale, Sweetgale, Bog-myrtle, Sweet Bayberry
Wild harvested on Vancouver Island, BC
$14.00
10 g
In stock
Aromatic wild spice with tropical fruit notes and a robust flavour profile. Growing on lakeshore, pong edge or coastal sea meadows the sweet gale plants are robust shrubs with aromatic leaves and resiny green berries. Try using it for seasoning fish and game or flavouring stews.
Forest For Dinner harvested this product from the traditional territory of the Uchucklesaht Tribe. Click here to learn more about this collaboration.
Ingredients: 100% wild-harvested dried sweet gale seeds (Myrica gale)
THE LUCID DREAMER
Legends tell of herbal gruit beers beloved by the berserkers; the sweet gale used was said to induce lucid dreaming and to this day is sold in teas said to offer vivid dreams to the drinker. Use this wild spice as a rub for wild game, to spice deserts and for herbal teas and fermented beverages.
CULINARY INSPIRATION FOR dried sweet gale
- The strong flavour profile goes a long way and can be infused in cream, added to brothy soups, rubbed on proteins or dusted on vegetables
- Paired with fruits the spice really shines
- Accent a pear tart or use to spice a peach cobbler
Storing dried botanical
Dried botanicals last longer in a cool, dry place.
Keep the jar in a dry environment away from direct sunlight.
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I just love the wild salal berry jelly you sent me. It’s absolutely delicious. I enjoy it with crackers and cheese and just on its own on toast. Can’t imagine how you manage to take something growing in the forest and make it taste so good. I’m really interested in native plants and have tried to grow a salal bush in my garden with no success. I think I will try again tho after tasting your product or perhaps I’ll get ambitious and forage some berries on my own.
Thanks very much and have a very Happy New Year !
Top notch! so smooth…
Very nice products,
arrived promptly well packed. Great designs on jars. for our kids in Seattle.