Bread and Cheese

Who else remembers singing this:

‘If all the world were paper,
And all the sea were ink,
If all the trees were bread and cheese,
What would we have to drink?’

Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
In the past, the leaf and unopened flower buds were a favourite forage for children, known as bread and cheese - the leaf being the bread and the flower the cheese. You can eat the young, new leaves of hawthorn in salads and sandwiches.