Fruits Of Hungarian Ancestors

While walking in Hungarian woods we could find several weel-known fruits which our ancestors could collect at their time.It is much easier to grow them at home than buy the bred ones. According to the magyarno.hu website the five most famous home-grown fruits that our ancestors regularly used are: blackberry and mulberry, domestic sorb, cornelian and sea buckthorn. Let’s learn a bit more about them.

Blackberry and mulberry

Mulberry was a typical fruit in the middle of the previous century of the Hungarian Great Plain. In summer its fruit was an excellent delicacy both for animals and children. Moreover, elder people used to make wine from the sweet fruit. The harvest of mulberry-bush contains lots of minerals, carotene, sugar, pectin and organic acids. Little white strawberries grow wild along the roads while bigger and tastier black and white fruits can be found in various ranches of the Great Plain nowadays.
Mulberry needs warm and sunny weather, this tree prefers nutrient-rich ground.
Interestingly, mulberry is still daily food in Afghanistan where people eat it raw or grind flour from the dried harvests.

Cornelian

Cornelian has not only been collected but also planted in the gardens since ancient times. Even today it is a very common plant in Hungarian forests. Cornelian contains a lot of vitamins, sugar, malic acid and pigments. Although it is an unassuming plant, cornelian prefers warm, sunny and lime-rich soil. Its fruit ripens poorly in cool, shady places. The most effective ways of breeding are using seedling and green cuttings because we can wait sometimes two years until the seeds start to grow. Only the ripe fruit tastes sweet, the half-ripe ones need 10 days to become soft and sweet as well. It can either be eaten raw, jam, syrup or pálinka can also be made from this ancient fruit.