The edible bouquet today is considered an original gift for any holiday, including male. Despite the fact that many florists have already mastered the new direction and offer the product to customers, make such an original gift and are perior.
What is Food floristics?
Food floristics is the preparation of floral compositions and bouquets of fruits, berries, vegetables and other edible ingredients. The history of this special direction of art refers to England of the XIX century. It was then that Journalist George Sala described in his note one London home-growers, collecting exquisite bouquets of vegetables and fruits. By the beginning of the 20th century, edible compositions spread all over the world.
For food bouquets, only the freshest products are used, and perishable additionally packaged in the food film. Alternately, they are bound to bamboo sticks or toothpicks, after which they are decorated with greens and are combined with a tape into a single composition.
Finished work is usually wrapped in a gift packaging in such a way that all unsightly parts are hidden.
Analogs of paper convolution can be a wicker basket, a floral porridge or a wooden box.
Review of types of bouquets
In terms of composition, all edible bouquets are customary to divide into several groups. The first includes compositions from living colors and ripe fruit, as well as sweets such as French cookies, marshmello or candy in brilliant wraps.
The second group combines bouquets created only from fruits and berries: both seasonal and exotic.
A plus of such a variety is its versatility: loved by aesthetic appearance, the product can be fully eaten.
Compositions from the third group are obtained by connecting vegetables, fresh greenery and champignons.
Finally, to the fourth variety, all the remaining edible products include: from meat products, dried fish, crayfish, dried fruits, cheeses and other non-standard ingredients.
As for the appearance, today one of the most popular varieties of food compositions remains Symmetric round bouquet, Collecting from ingredients of different lengths walking along the spirals. Well known to I. Biedermeier : Compositions in this style also have a rounded form, but the ingredients are laid out on the concentric circle. Asymmetric bouquets Created in two ways: by three triangles and diagonal method.
How to do it yourself?
Delicious gifts for any holiday are quite realistic to collect with their own hands.
From fruit
A simple composition as a gift for a woman or young girl for a teacher's day or mother's day is obtained from grapefruit, kiwi, lemon and apples. In addition to the main products, it will take capsules for colors and flowers themselves, food film, scissors, hot glue and tape. According to the manufacturer's instructions, citrus should not only be washed thoroughly, but also cut, cleaned and wrapped with a food film to save.
Kiwi will also have to cut and wrap in the film, but apples can be left unchanged.
Components are rolled on sticks and ships, after which they are combined into a single composition with adhesive tape.
This should be done by placing all the components in the inverted form.
Grepefrurt is located in the center, and the elements are smaller around it. The gaps are filled with flowers fixed in special capsules, and decorative herbs sprigs.
Finished work turns into a packing of crafted paper in such a way as to hide all twigs and sticks that look out from below.
Additionally, a bantum or satin ribbons can be tied on the leg.
From vegetables
Vegetable bouquet can be made only from autumn vegetables or just everything that grows at the moment on the beds. For example, on strong wooden sticks, first it will be necessary to put a couple of bulbs and cucumbers, Bulgarian pepper, carrots, garlic and halve corn, and then decorate the resulting bouquet of fresh greens.
Such a master class will make it form and a vegetable basket. Middle-sized fruits will need to rinse and dry, and then cut into small bars and placed on the skewers. Between the blanks are tested with a braid, after which they are located in a small basket. Similarly, a bouquet of Cherry and Mozzarella tomatoes is constructed.
Fish
Itself to make an edible gift will succeed and from such a "male" food, like drunk or dried fish. In addition to the key ingredient, it will take several bottles of beer, spanks and tape, scissors, transparent cellophane, salt snacks, sausages and cheese. The spanks are glued with adhesive tape around bottles with beer, and their ends are connected to each other. Supliks and other snacks are poured into tight cellophane kulets. Fish tails are turned around by the food film, after which they are attached to the scotch on the skewers.
In the center of the composition should be beer bottles, and fish, snacks, sausages and cheese are already going around them.
From crayfish
An excellent offer for men will be a bouquet of crayfish. The main product is boiled in advance in salt water, after which it is leaking on a colander and dried on a towel.
On the crayfish sticks are fixed by rubber bands, although you can try to pierce the belly between the rear legs.
The center of the composition becomes a bottle of beer, fixed in a foam basis with a handle. Speats with racks are attached in a circle around her.
The finished product is decorated with lemon slices and turns around kraft paper.
From sweets
Quite quickly, you can learn how to collect a bouquet for children from sweets. The technology of its preparation is not different from fruit or berries: sweets, marshmallows, marshmellos and other tastes are planted on sticks and combine into a single composition. For example, a gift for a girl can be created from all the favorite sweets of the culprit of the celebration or only from Raffaello candy, marmalades in the form of flowerfish or kinder surprises. The combination of soft bears of calm gray, beautiful candies in gold wrappers and bright red wrapping paper looks very cute. The boy will probably have the soul of the composition assembled from M & M's packs, or a set of several types of chocolate bars with a bottle of soda in the center.
From berries
The edible berry bouquet will be perfect wedding gift. As the basis, a cherry, strawberry and blueberries are involved.
Available fruits will be on a sup of approximately 30 centimeters.
So that the berries do not scroll through and kept stronger, it is better to adjust for each pair of thin wooden sticks.
The assembly of the composition is carried out on spiral technology. At first, the skewers with three berries are crossed and fasten with narrow scotch, and then the remaining blanks are joined to them.
For decoration, it is better to use live eustoma flowers, and the emerging gaps close up with rush and fern leaves.
The finished bouquet is recommended to be treated with a secateur so that it can stick on the leg.
It will be right first to wrap a bouquet in a transparent film, and then in the appropriate shared style packaging.
Strawberry "Polyanka" can be given to mom or grandmother even without a special occasion. In addition to fresh fruits, it will have to prepare a rose of gentle color, a secateur, stapler, spanks, scissors and wrapping paper. It is more convenient to engage in creativity in rubber gloves. Step by step by following the instructions, starting with alternate bodies on wooden sticks.
Next occurs the formation of the composition itself: 3-5 Speakers with strawberries are located in the center, and a spiral-shaped composition of berries and flowers in special capsules is slightly distinguished around them.
The finished bouquet is wrapped in packaging and is tied up with a bow.
From seafood
A bouquet of seafood is created as well as a bouquet of crayfish or dried fish. The most common ingredient is royal shrimp. The product is boiled and satiated on the skewers. The most convenient to fasten the shrimp in the floral sponge, which after will be disguised as packaging paper. Complete composition can be added to lemon slices, rosemary sprigs, pistachios, chili peppers or even a bottle of soy sauce.
Meat
The preparation of a meat bouquet begins with cutting sausages into pieces. Some of them twisted with rugs and tied with twine. All meat elements are put on the spanks. Buns or baguettes are ideally suited to the company to sausages: the first are divided by half, and the second is cut into several large pieces. A bottle of alcohol is usually put to the center of the composition, and bakery products are located along the edges. The gaps are filled with sausages and cherry tomatoes, and spanks and twine are masked by fresh greens and chili peppers.
Preparing a meat bouquet, it is possible that it is easier: to choose some elongated and narrow varieties of sausages, cut them with mastsaw and pack in craft paper.
Tips for beginners
When creating an edible bouquet, it is important to adhere to the correct combination of colors. It can be achieved by one of the four main ways. In the first case, there is a combination of contrast shades, placed opposite each other, and in the second inside the composition, similar colors are adjacent. The third way is to use different shades of one color. Finally, when choosing the fourth, it will be necessary to combine the colors from different parts of the color circle.
The first experience of creating a fruit-berry gift may seem complex and time consuming. The female edible bouquet of fruits made by their own hands is easier to arrange, acting according to step-by-step video and photos from the master class, where you will clearly demonstrate all the details of the process. Compositions based on useful gifts of nature is quite a new passion.
To get the desired result, it is worth listening to some recommendations of experts.
Storage features
As a long time to store in a constant form, you can bouquets of nuts and dried fruits: the first is stored month, the second - 2 weeks. Berry bouquets are recommended to be eaten for 12 hours, and fruit days. However, after a timely disagreement, it will be possible to extend the shelf life of its ingredients. So, having received a product from fruits and berries as a gift, it should be carefully examined. Cut and overwhelmed fruits are used in food during the day or saved in the refrigerator a couple of days.
Previously, they are necessarily removed from the speakers and are washed under warm running water. Mature and overripe fruits with berries are also removed in the cold and are provided with air circulation around.
It is important to keep them away from vegetables.
All components of men's bouquets are recommended immediately removed from the spedes and remove into the space where the temperature is maintained from 0 to +6 ° C. The storage period of products under these conditions is four days.
Marshmello and marshmallows from sweet bouquets will sufficiently remove from wooden sticks and shifting into a plastic bag. With dried fruits, it should be treated in a similar way, but before use they will be required to rinse.
Another way to create a fod-bouquet of strawberries in chocolate will see in the next video.