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Nettle Soup

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Recipe taken from Wild Foods, by Roger Phillips.


Try with caution, folks: I did, and I & my mum & sister thought it truly
revolting. Even the dogs refused it. YMMV.

What bit was revolting?

I don't fancy the cream, and the rest I feel I'd find rather bland. I
shall molish some nettle swoop soon, and chip in with my recipe. There
may be more nettles.....

If you fancy munching weeds/wildflowers, I do recommend ground elder and
ramsons - both can be used as a pizza topping or cooked in butter, and much
nicer than nettles.

Agreed that ransomes and ground elder are good, but properly treated,
nettles are ace, too. Good King Henry, fat hen, glasswort, samphire
(Crithrum maritimum, *NOT* Salicornia perennis!), sea kale, sea spinach,
dandelion leaves and the young shoots of hogweed are all delicious as
well.

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