General information and discussion about cultivating all other edible garden plants.
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May 24, 2016
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Any fans of pokeweed here?
I saw a post on FB discussing the harvesting and eating of pokeweed shoots.
Does anyone here have experience cooking and/or eating them?
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Yes me ate it all my life.
Pick/cut no higher than 18 inches boil toss out water boil again toss water boil and eat. If you don't do this it will run through you like a heard of buffalo and burn your lips and mouth.  Takes a big tow sack full to make around 16 to 20 quarts. Worth |
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In the article, it says you can prepare the shoots for eating by breading/battering and frying them up. I hate boiled vegetables like okra, (bowl of snot!) but I love fried okra.
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So if you cut it young you should be able to do it. It also makes a difference on how much you eat. In the spring we ate huge platters of it while it lasted. Worth |
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Boil tender leaves (not shoots) in 2 waters, them chop it lightly, fry it in bacon grease with scrambled eggs. Served as supper along with ham slices, bacon, biscuits and sawmill gravy. Claud
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Oxalic acid - not fun
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I looked at the site and the pictures and it is like they are only eating a few young shoots not a whole mess of greens. On a side note we had a dog that ate poke berries all of the time. She had purple lips. Worth |
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