[Sca-cooks] edible plants at Pennsic

[Kristina Pohl]

At 10:10 PM 15/06/2004, you wrote:
>Yes, the bark can be used for headaches or can be made to yield the same 
>compound as aspirin? Which is what I was thinking of. But I don't know if 
>some other part of it is edible as food. I think I would be interested in 
>a class though, that showed how to process willow bark into a headache 
>cure. Maybe because I'm familiar with the modern version. I quickly lose 
>track of what is what in most herb and how to use them classes, though.
>
>Stefan


As far as I know, you can just make it into tea. We usually do 1 tsp of 
shredded willow bark to one mug of hot water, adding other herbs as wished 
to flavour it nicely. It seems to work quite well.

Kris

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