SC - Edible weeds

[Christine A Seelye-King]

Oh, yes, poke sallat or poke weed is all around here.  The key is to get
it while it is young.  As soon as the stems start turning purple, it has
become poisonous.  The purple berries make a pretty permanant dye. 
Christianna

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:46:38 -0400 Elaine Koogler
<ekoogler at chesapeake.net> writes:
> We have another weed here in the South...although it may grow 
> elsewhere...called
> pokeberry.  I know that some of the older country folks make 
> something called
> "poke salat" using the leaves, cooking it in much the same way that 
> they cook
> other greens, such as mustard, turnip, kale, etc.  Does this ring a 
> bell with
> anyone?  (After I started researching period recipes, I was somewhat 
> bemused to
> find that the term "salat" or "Sallet" was a period term!)
> 
> Kiri
> 
> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> 
> > Ras said:
> > > BTW, Dandelions in the US are an escapee of a garden plant 
> introduced from
> > > Europe very early in US history. The leaves are delicious when 
> cooked as
> > > greens; raw in salads when young, the buds a re good steamed and 
> served with
> > > butter, salt and pepper; the roots have great herbal medicinal 
> use.......
> >
> > A lot of the items most people would consider these days, 'weeds', 
> can
> > be seen in various period salad recipes.
> >
> > I don't remember any mention of dandelions being used this way, 
> although
> > I may have just missed it. Any period referances to dandelion 
> leaves
> > being eaten in Europe or even better dandelion wine would be 
> appreciated.
> > I have messages talking about dandelions being used in period in 
> salads
> > but no period quotes verifying this.
> >
> > For those interested in seeing what other "weeds" were used in 
> period
> > salads check the salads-msg file in the Florilegium.
> >
> > --
> > Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of 
> Ansteorra
> > Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           
> stefan at texas.net
> > **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  
> http://www.florilegium.org ****
> > 
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