SC - feast disasters

[Morgan]

If a person isn't well-versed in wild food identification,  edible and
poisonous camas look alike.  They both resemble wild onion (maybe the same
family?).  I don't know if they grow
where this particular cook would be from, though.

Morgan

- -----Original Message-----
From: Decker, Terry D. <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: 'sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG' <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 5:20 AM
Subject: RE: SC - feast disasters


>> I'm not MaggiRos, and I don't know the cockaleeky story, but at the
recent
>>
>> Highlands War a cook in a neighboring camp cooked a special treat of
"Wild
>>
>> Onion Soup" for his/her group.  Problem was the "Wild Onions" were a
>> member
>> of the lily family, and poisonous.  All but one of them wound up spending
>> a
>> miserable night in the Emergency Room.
>>
>> Mordonna
>>
>Onions are a member of the lily family.  Along with chives, garlic, leeks
>and shallots, they are a member of the genus Allium.
>
>Do you have any idea of what plant they actually used?
>
>Bear
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