[Sca-cooks] Ukranian greens question?

[Chass Brown]

Welp here in Oklahoma Lambsquarters grows wild and in abundance.. have eaten 
it tastes alot like spinach. I like it in a forest wilted salad with wild 
onions and such :)


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Ukranian greens question?


> Pigweed and lambsquarters both refer to Chenopodium album, which sounds 
> like
> the lambsquarters referred to here.  Pigweed is also a name for Amaranthus
> retroflexus also called redroot, which is probably the pig fodder 
> mentioned
> as the description matches.
>
> Bear
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I thought I would post my response to this list as well. To provide
> context a
>> response was sent to another list regarding these greens. The person
>> indicated that a relative said that the word natena meant pigweed and 
>> then
>> the individual went on to state that it was also called lambsquarters. I
>> thought I would do a little bit of research as to me both of these weeds
> are
>> different weeds. I do not have a diffinitive answer to that. It doesn't
>> surprise me that they are referred to in the same family but the websites
> I
>> provide do make it interesting. Below is my response.
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I find this conversation on weeds somewhat interesting as I had never
> heard of
>> pigweed being called lambsquarters in my life as they are two distinctly
>> different weeds in Ontario. My Ukrainian grandmother used lambsquarters
> all
>> the time to make a soup that my brothers adored. Pigsweed was never used
> to
>> feed people. That being said if the pigs got weeds to eat then they got
> all
>> of the weeds not select ones. Growing up on a farm with a large garden 
>> let
>> me learn the names of all common weeds as it was the one chore I detested
>> above all others - I hated getting dirty.
>>
>
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