RE: Slightly off topic - Mere vegetables
- Subject: RE: Slightly off topic - Mere vegetables
- From: C* J*
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:43:31 -0700
Thank you very much. If your scanner recovers, that would be wonderful, if
not, next allowance I'll investigate the book.
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From: Colette DUNKLEY [g*@dial.pipex.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:16 PM
To: CarolJ@minimed.com; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Slightly off topic - Mere vegetables
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol Joynson <CarolJ@minimed.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Slightly off topic - Mere vegetables
Have you got a book called Wild Food by Roger Phillips ? its in his series
of large photo books.
Anyway on p 30 he talks about, Bistort (Polygonum bistorta) also known as
passion dock and Easter giant Common in the north of England( it looks
very similar to the weed we used to call redlegs as kids) It is meant to be
eaten at easter and is reputed to be a good spring tonic.
He gives a recipe. My scanner is playing up I'll try and scan the info to
morrowand send it to you if you like
> Thomas Etty Esq. offers a vegetable called Bistort (Polygonum bistorta)
for
> sale and mentions that it is one of the basic ingredients of Easter Ledger
> Pudding.
> An Easter Garden writes: "In some parts of the country it is known as
> Easterman Giants, Easter Ledger and Passion Dock. Far from being just a
> weed, the Common Bistort can be eaten - and it still is in northern areas
of
> England, where it's made into a dish called Dock Pudding. The
long-stalked,
> heart-shaped leaves are mixed with chopped nettle leaves, onions, oatmeal,
> salt and pepper and then fried. Other leaves might include cabbage leaves,
> dandelion leaves... almost anything green! Delicious! "
>
> Can anyone tell me whether this is the Easter Ledger Pudding to which
Thomas
> Etty refers?
>
> Carol in LA - miles from the green of England.
>
