Harvesting yellow dock seeds. What wild food are you harvesting right now?
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
August 31, 2010 9:48am CST
Yellow dock seeds go well in crackers or bread. Since a person can overdose on vit A, it can only be used in small quantities or food that you eat in moderation. If you search dock seed recipes, you should get one or two recipes since the internet is where I got one a long time ago. So what do you use it for or what are you using it in?
2 responses
@ElicBxn (64177)
• United States
1 Sep 10
well, Texas isn't all a desert, yes, there are places that are desert, but Austin, while HOT, isn't a desert
Neither are we a swamp. Our river, the Colorado (not the one that made the Grand Canyon) is dammed up in this area - thanks mostly to LBJ. We have cat tails and the like, but I wouldn't be able to find them away from a road - well, honestly, I don't walk that well. Mesquite beans can have their out shells eaten, apparently they are sweet. We do have native pecans and walnuts so I have a clue or two...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas
oh, and prickly pears are eatable too - once the thorns are gone
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Sep 10
Yup, prickly pears is one of the ones I've heard of. Pecans we can't grow up here and we can grow butternuts and a reallly tough walnut called a black walnut (have to use a sledge hammer or run over it with your car to get it out of the shell). Sounds like there is some good eating there. Cat tails have a different part edible in every season.
Thanks for keeping this discussion alive, hopefully others will respond. I seem to have lost 1/2 my following since my time out due to the computer failure. But some of my really devoted friends like you are here and I just picked up a couple of people who may or may not be continuous friends. Thanks again.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
2 Sep 10
I had acorn meal in muffins before. I liked them. Made the muffins seem hardier. No, I've never seen burr oak.
Black walnuts, depends on the year, good years, more meat in them than bad years.
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@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
2 Sep 10
I remember going picking wild berries as a kid and eating them,but it's not something I've done in Years..Nowadays,either the birds get to them first,or they're growing by a roadside,and there's no way I'm gonna eat something that's had car and truck fumes belched over it while it's been growing! There was a wild strawberry plant in my Garden that was found by a Young guy who used to cut the grass for Me (He was killed a few Years ago when a driver swerved,mounted the Kerb,and hit him..) Then later, another guy "helpfully" did some weeding in there,and got rid of it.. I understand stinging nettles can make a good soup..I have some of those from time to time in the garden,but have never wanted to try the recipe so much that I'm prepared to chance being stung to collect them!
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
2 Sep 10
Not just the fumes, anything they put on the road, esp. in winter.
Stinging nettles, you need to look up ways to pick and prepare before you use something like that. Used for hair conditioners, too, mostly for people with dark hair. Sorry that someone killed the guy who found the strawberry plant and sorry a young guy picked the strawberry plant. If you have stinging nettles, you might have jewelweed, too.
Thanks for stopping by, glad you had the experience of picking berries when you were young. I picked some wild blackberries earlier. Love them. Take care
