Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Cook's Guide entry for Horehound along with all the Horehound containing recipes presented on this site, with 1 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Horehound recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Horehound as a major wild food ingredient.

Horehound, (also known as white or common horehound) Marrubium vulgare is a flowering plant in the Lamiaceae (mint) family. It is a greyish-leaved herbaceous perennial plant, somewhat resembling mint in appearance, which grows to 25-45 cm tall. The leaves are 2-5 cm long with a densely crinkled surface, and downy-hairy. The flowers are white, borne in clusters on the upper part of the main stem. Like other members of Lamiaceae, horehound has a square stem.

The herb used to be made into cough drops and was also sold as sticks called 'long-life candy'. It is still used to flavour home-made fudge and may well have been used in prehistory to flavour sweet cakes. As a member of the mint family horehound also makes a rather interesting additon to savoury stews.

The wild chive has hardly changed during the course of its domestication and the substitution of domestic or bought chives for wild chives in a recipe will not affect the flavour of a dish.