On 11/11/05 20:25, in article
, "Jaques d'Alltrades"
wrote:

The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:
Mike Lyle wrote:
[...]
I've eaten the flower-buds, as cooked for us by a Chinese visitor.
A
gastronomic non-event, I thought. I've seen dried ones in oriental
shops, labelled "day-lily buds", in case anybody wants to try them.

Oh, and, taking my cue from Ray Mears, I've tried fresh very young
lime (linden, not citrus) leaves: they're a pleasant salading.

I sometimes use chickweed. And very young shoots of hogweed are quite a
pleasant vegetable, though they have to be *VERY* young, or they taste
like cats' armpits.

I also use ground elder and many of the chenopodia as green veg.

Someone told us earlier this year that the shoots of Black Bryony were good
to eat. Anyone done this?
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