Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
On Burkes Backyard, I think about 3 weeks ago, they showed how to cook
Aloe vera. The person who did the taste test said it was delicious. It was pretty simple, but I didn't pay much attention thinking I'd get the recipe from their web site later. But I can't find any mention of it there, so I'm hoping someone else was taking notes. Anyone here? There is mention of the net that Latinos use Aloe vera in cooking, but no one seems to have produced a recipe. Other recipes for cooking it would be welcome, too. -- John Savage (news reply email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
John Savage wrote:
On Burkes Backyard, I think about 3 weeks ago, they showed how to cook Aloe vera. The person who did the taste test said it was delicious. It was pretty simple, but I didn't pay much attention thinking I'd get the recipe from their web site later. But I can't find any mention of it there, so I'm hoping someone else was taking notes. Anyone here? There is mention of the net that Latinos use Aloe vera in cooking, but no one seems to have produced a recipe. Other recipes for cooking it would be welcome, too. I've never heard of this. The juice from the leaves is a very powerful laxative, so be careful with it. Jane |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
|
#4
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
In article ,
Jane VR wrote: I've never heard of this. The juice from the leaves is a very powerful laxative, so be careful with it. Me either, but I'd heard it was an emetic! Either way, I'll stick to using it on burns and grazes. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "...children should continue to be breastfed... for up to two years of age or beyond." -- Innocenti Declaration, Florence, 1 August 1990 |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
arien wrote:
In article , says... 'd get the recipe from their web site later. But I can't find any mentio Maybe try the Burkes Backyard magazine? I've noticed that stuff that goes in the magazine tends to be omitted from their website. A friend of mine, born and bred oversea in a European country, had memories of a special dish that he had last eaten some 40 years ago - and he really missed it! I told him that I knew a person who owned a restaraunt in Sydney who came from the same part of the world he did and may know the recipe but unfortunately she did not but thought that her now deceased husband would have known. So, no recipe of THAT special recipe! It then occurred to me to do a search using Google for the recipe for this dish. It took exactly 3 minutes to find the very recipe that my friend has been seeking for many, many years (and he, too, daily accesses the Internet!). Marvellous what one can find using Google or Ask Jeeves search engines. -- "I'd rather be a has-been than a never-been-at-all." |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
I've never heard of this. The juice from the leaves is a very powerful
laxative, so be careful with it. Jane Hello, I eat the gel and juice from my aloe vera plants. The green juice is bitter. The gel is easily ok. Is it a powerful laxative? I dunno I didn't feel it. However, the same cannot be said about the green leaves or the skin. I carelessly ate some of that when I sliced the gel to eat and it made me totally dead sick for several days. There are several varieties of the aloe vera plant though. And my experience might not apply to all. Anyhow, just eat the gel or drink it down with water and honey. Its suppose to be very good for the stomach. DON'T EAT THE GREEN SKIN or any trace of it. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
Screwed Up Server - Telstra Bigpond wrote: I've never heard of this. The juice from the leaves is a very powerful laxative, so be careful DON'T EAT THE GREEN SKIN or any trace of it. An old fellow from North American desert country once told me that after slitting the aloe leaf open the YELLOW portions should be removed by blotting with absorbent material such as a paper towel because that is the laxative component. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
My isp's server has been flaky for a few weeks, hence no postings.
This is the only aloe vera recipe I have found so far: Ingredients: for 8 persons/50 min 500 g aloe vera 200 g flour 100 g ghee 1 tsp lemon juice or salt to taste coarse sugar Method: Peel aloe vera and take the pulp out. The pulp will be about 250 grams. Add lemon juice or salt and keep aside for about 15-20 minutes, then wash thoroughly and mash with a fork. Heat a ladle of ghee in a deep pan. Fry the pulp on low heat until it leaves the sides of the pan. Remove it from the pan and keep it aside. Put ghee in the pan and roast the flour on low heat until light brown. When a good aroma emanates add to it the fried aloe vera and mix. While warm add coarse sugar and form into laddoos. kkagrawal@s... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor I lost the link, but searching google for a few keywords in the recipe will find it. There is also mention of an Aloe Jam, but I'm not sure whether it is a pleasant tasting food, or a medicinal form. I guess I must be growing pigmy Aloe. Look at this description on the web: | Habitat Originally from North Africa and Spain, it is native to hot, | dry regions. | Appearance Aloe Vera is 12 feet high. The leaves are succulent, broad | at the base and pointed at the tips, with spines along the edges. I wouldn't like to parachute into a field of these giant Aloe plants! -- John Savage (news reply email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
Basil Chupin writes:
It then occurred to me to do a search using Google for the recipe for this dish. Please share your ferretting skills, Basil. Before I posted I spent 2.5 hours on google, finding many requests for recipes, but only one actual submitted recipe (and it doesn't look very appetising). Most of the articles I looked at were pre-2000. One idea sounds good: making candy coated aloe vera cubes, along the lines of an all-natural jelly-centred confection, a jelly bean. But as yet no actual recipe. -- John Savage (news reply email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
Hi John,
I saw that episode and remembered some details. But I wanted to be sure so I checked the Burkes Backyard website. I entered the word "aloe" in the SEARCH box on the home page. The only entry remotely relevant was the 2003 archive about the "Aloe Ver Bra" ;-). And that was in that episode too. Click on it. Here's a snip FYI. -- Medicinal properties Aloe vera is said to have healing properties. In fact, it has been used medicinally for centuries. It has been identified in wall paintings in ancient Egypt, where it was apparently used to treat catarrh. Alexander the Great supposedly used aloes to heal his soldiers’ wounds. In traditional Chinese medicine the pith and mucilaginous gel from inside the leaves is boiled, sweetened with honey, then refrigerated and taken as a tonic. (Note: pregnant women, nursing mothers and children should not take aloe vera orally.) -- John Savage wrote: On Burkes Backyard, I think about 3 weeks ago, they showed how to cook Aloe vera. The person who did the taste test said it was delicious. It was pretty simple, but I didn't pay much attention thinking I'd get the recipe from their web site later. But I can't find any mention of it there, so I'm hoping someone else was taking notes. Anyone here? There is mention of the net that Latinos use Aloe vera in cooking, but no one seems to have produced a recipe. Other recipes for cooking it would be welcome, too. |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
John Savage wrote:
Basil Chupin writes: It then occurred to me to do a search using Google for the recipe for this dish. Please share your ferretting skills, Basil. Before I posted I spent 2.5 hours on google, finding many requests for recipes, but only one actual submitted recipe (and it doesn't look very appetising). Most of the articles I looked at were pre-2000. One idea sounds good: making candy coated aloe vera cubes, along the lines of an all-natural jelly-centred confection, a jelly bean. But as yet no actual recipe. Try doing a search on "recipes aloe vera" (without the quotes of course) and see what this turns up. Cheers. -- "I'd rather be a has-been than a never-been-at-all." |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
Basil Chupin writes:
Try doing a search on "recipes aloe vera" (without the quotes of course) and see what this turns up. Thanks Basil. Lots of recipes for aloe hand cream and sun lotion! -- John Savage (news reply email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
John Savage wrote:
Basil Chupin writes: Try doing a search on "recipes aloe vera" (without the quotes of course) and see what this turns up. Thanks Basil. Lots of recipes for aloe hand cream and sun lotion! In Google, select Group search and then look in: alt.folklore.herbs and own.health.herbs Search on "aloe" and see what turns up. You could also subscribe to NG called rec.food.recipes (it's a moderated NS; I was in it for some time and was provided with a recipe from a person in Canada for a sandwich which I ate as a child in China)) and ask the question there if the above 2 NSs do not produce anything. You could also pay a visit to www.chamomiletimes.com/herbs/aloevera where there is lots of interesting things to see - some could be useful :-). -- "I'd rather be a has-been than a never-been-at-all." |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
how to cook Aloe vera?
Basil Chupin wrote:
John Savage wrote: Basil Chupin writes: Try doing a search on "recipes aloe vera" (without the quotes of course) and see what this turns up. Thanks Basil. Lots of recipes for aloe hand cream and sun lotion! In Google, select Group search and then look in: alt.folklore.herbs and own.health.herbs Search on "aloe" and see what turns up. You could also subscribe to NG called rec.food.recipes (it's a moderated NS; I was in it for some time and was provided with a recipe from a person in Canada for a sandwich which I ate as a child in China)) and ask the question there if the above 2 NSs do not produce anything. You could also pay a visit to www.chamomiletimes.com/herbs/aloevera where there is lots of interesting things to see - some could be useful :-). You could also try our own ABC's site - www.abc.net.au/gardening - and do a search on "aloe vera". There are some interesting articles about this succulent. -- "I'd rather be a has-been than a never-been-at-all." |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Aloe Vera Plants | Plant Biology | |||
speaking of aloe vera ... | Australia | |||
Aloe Vera Plants | Plant Biology | |||
Preserving Aloe Vera? | Plant Biology | |||
Aloe vera - too soon to put outside? | Gardening |