Any fans of pokeweed here?

**Mischka** · May 23, 2016

I saw a post on FB discussing the harvesting and eating of pokeweed shoots.

Does anyone here have experience cooking and/or eating them?

Zana · May 24, 2016

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Originally Posted by Mischka

I saw a post on FB discussing the harvesting and eating of pokeweed shoots.

Does anyone here have experience cooking and/or eating them?

Here is said article: http://www.gardenista.com/posts/weed...n-eat-pokeweed

Worth1 · May 24, 2016

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

**Mischka** · May 24, 2016

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.

Worth1 · May 24, 2016

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Originally Posted by Mischka

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.

You can do that but from experience the older the plant the stronger the poison in it.
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

saltmarsh · May 24, 2016

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

cwavec · May 24, 2016

Oxalic acid - not fun

Worth1 · May 24, 2016

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Originally Posted by cwavec

Oxalic acid - not fun

Yep.
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

May 23, 2016	#1
Mischka Tomatoville® Administrator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Bay State Posts: 3,207	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? __________________ Mischka One last word of farewell, Dear Master and Mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also with happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loved us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.

May 24, 2016	#4
Mischka Tomatoville® Administrator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Bay State Posts: 3,207	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. __________________ Mischka One last word of farewell, Dear Master and Mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also with happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loved us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.

May 24, 2016	#3
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	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

May 24, 2016	#6
saltmarsh Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: 2 miles south of Yoknapatawpha Zone 7b Posts: 662	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

May 24, 2016	#7
cwavec Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2016 Location: PA - 5b Posts: 92	Oxalic acid - not fun