[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest/burdock

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Elizabeth A Heckert:
>    Burdock is a weed.  The root was gathered and works rather like a
>tuber; except that it turns brown really quickly once cut.  Remains were
>found at the Viking era sites of Elisenhof and Hedeby in Germany.  It is
>one of the wild plant foods (like stinging nettles, chickweed and
>chenopodias) that were eaten either as early greens (like nettles) or in
>case of cultivated scarcities.  Nettles, chickweed and chenopodias
>remains were also found at Elisenhof and Hedeby.
>
>   Burdock is utilized in macrobiotic diets, and I *think* Asian foods--I
>learned about it making a macrobiotic salad for the salad deli at a co-op
>I worked for, so I don't know what kind of place it has in more
>traditional dishes.  I have come across it for sale in both natural foods
>groceries and Asian markets, which is good, 'cause I don't have the
>vaguest idea of what the plant itself looks like!

I have a vague recollection it shows up in some Korean cookery.
Certainly it is sold in Korean markets (sliced, dried roots, I
think). Not sure how it's used, though.

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