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Old May 23, 2016   #1
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Default 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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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
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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.


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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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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.
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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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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.

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