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[Phil & Susan Troy]

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:
> 
> I've seen lavender listed somewhere in cooking herbs, I think.  Friends
> gave me some plants.  Is it really edible?  Do I just toss it into the
> simmering liquid with the thyme, rosemary, and sorrel?  It nearly went
> into tonight's chicken  (which tomorrow is getting dumplings 'cause Ras
> and Margali are making me hungry all over again) but I 'chickened' out.
> Any cautions on eating lavender?

Not cautions, no. It is edible, and while I can't address the question of
which parts of the fresh plant are edible, I know that the dried lavender that
you can buy in the herb store or that you can pick out of the little jar of
herbs de Provence, are the dried blossoms.

Adamantius
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