SC - Re: Wild "Onions"
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 26 10:34:00 PDT 2001
I would be more worried about the unknown chemicals that the park
department/landowners/other person or persons unknown may have sprayed on the
prospective ingredients. I know what's going on in my own back yard, but not in
anybody else's.
Selene
ruadh wrote:
> 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
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