HERB -herb pancakes - was Edema Help

[Walter J. Wakefield]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:40:41 -0500 "Gaylin Walli" <gwalli at infoengine.com>
writes:
 I had heard of something similar using elder flowers, dipping them in
batter, and frying them up.  Supposed to be right good.  And elder flower
is good for flu and colds.  Had not heard of it with Queen Anne's lace. 
The stems of Q.A. lace are tougher than those of elder flower, and
sometimes a bit hairy.  

If you try this be absolutele SURE you have Queen Anne's lace - there are
several very similar related herbs which are quite toxic, including
hemlock, which was used to poison Socrates.  Once you learn to recognize
Queen Annes lace (wild carrot, Dacus carota), it is easy to tell from the
others ... just be SURE of your identification.  Wild carrot usually
blooms in May and June in Ansteorra and Merides, sometimes into July.

Suzanna
>
>Little bit of trivia, just because I have it in my head and it
>won't go away (so I must inflict it on the list). Within out
>lifetimes and those of our parents and grandparents, farm
>women used to (and sometimes still do) make pancakes and
>dip the heads of queen anne's lace flowers into the pancake
>as it cooks. The flower head is cut off close to the pancake
>(so the short stems don't stick out).
>
>Why, you ask? Because it helped with dropsy, which is another
>word for edema.
>
>jasmine
>iasmin de cordoba, gwalli at infoengine.com
>

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