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Chris ] writes:
| An old person told me about a vegetable she used to eat in her youth.
| It was called "marcory" but she didn't know how to spell it.
| Does anyone know what it is?
| She said it was leaves like nettles.

Mercury. Good King Henry. All-good. Chenopodium bonum-henricum.
A perennial relative of goosefoot (orache) and seeds itself almost
as freely. You can also blanch the stems, when they are known as
Lincolnshire asparagus - I do. Goosefoot can also be eaten.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.