SC - Re: Wild "Onions"

[ruadh]

do remember that they are not "organically pure" either ! Just because its
out in nature, you don't know who or what may have fertilised it just before
camp.
Or maybe it was the hot soapy water used to wash off all the "field crap" ?

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne du Bosc" <mordonna22 at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:22 PM
Subject: SC - Re: Wild "Onions"


> There are some members of the Allium family that
> are poisonous, and that look and smell a bit like
> wild onions.  Ask the members of Black Rose,
> whose cook at a Highlands war a few years back
> decided to cook "Onion Soup" using the "wild
> onions" he found growing at the camp site.  The
> entire Household wound up with the trots, and
> some of them made a late night visit to the
> hospital for a date with a stomach pump.  If you
> don't KNOW what they are, my suggestion would be
> don't eat it.  Or you could try it out on a least
> favorite Peer, I guess.
>
> Mordonna the Cook
>