Autumn Berry Inspired a field guide to the autumn olive

Recipes.

Some of our favorite autumn berry recipes, filmed by foragers and cooks who know the fruit. Most start the same way: with a pot of seedless puree.

Make the puree first 
A tray of freshly spread autumn berry fruit leather topped with sliced almonds, being cut into strips.
Plate 1 Fruit leather, still wet, with sliced almonds.

Fruit leather

A friendly walk through the kitchen, making your own autumn berry fruit leather.

EarthWorkPrograms · 2015 · YouTube

Jam

A precise culinary lesson in foraging the berries and making autumn berry jam.

Teaching Culinary Arts · YouTube

Cobbler

Woods to table: a simple autumn olive berry cobbler, with Misty Loggins.

Mafia Outdoors TV · 2016 · YouTube

Smoothie

How to harvest the berries in the wild, then blend them into a smoothie.

Magical Hoof · 2018 · YouTube

Out of the pot.

Fruit leather in several forms, and a few other things that have come out of the pot.

Fruit leather half dipped in dark chocolate and topped with candied ginger.
Plate 2 Chocolate and candied ginger.
Chocolate-covered fruit leather topped with goji berries and pumpkin seeds.
Plate 3 Chocolate, goji and pumpkin seed.
Strips of chocolate-coated fruit leather on a tray marked with blue and yellow tape.
Plate 4 Chocolate strips, cooling.
Rows of fruit leather bars in printed wrappers packed tightly in a box.
Plate 5 Wrapped bars, by the boxful.
A cook carrying a sheet pan of spread red fruit puree in a home kitchen.
Plate 6 Into the dehydrator.
A hand scattering autumn berries over batter in a glass baking dish.
Plate 7 Berries over batter.
A chalkboard sign reading Try our new Autumn Berry smoothie, with a drawing of a pink drink.
Plate 8 On a café chalkboard.
A cup of pink autumn berry ice cream beside a sign that says Autumn Berry Ice Cream.
Plate 9 Autumn berry ice cream.