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Polgara · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject: Wild Garlic

Does anyone use this in cooking & if so which parts are best?
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JellyB · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

I chop up the leaves and add to salad or mix chopped leaves in with beaten egg to make an omelette. Also a few flowers in a salad look pretty and have a mild garlic taste. I think you can eat the roots too but I've not tried that
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seileasdar · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

You can use it in almost anything you would use garlic for.
To mix it in batter for bread and rolls is quite the hype in Germany at the moment,
as is adding it to cheese in the fermentig stage,
it's also nice as a pesto,
or as part of a salad with beef.
Oh there are soooo many uses to wild garlic
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Polgara · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks all I have just dug up some roots & put them in a pot at the moment. If they take I have the perfect place for them where they will be well contained. I am hoping that they will have the same health benifits as cooking garlic, but not be quite so strong.
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seileasdar · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject:

They will taste the same,
but I am afraid the health benefits of proper garlic is in the family allium, to which there is also onion and such,
if you mean the cancer fighting, anti bacterial and other benefits.
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sidecar_jon · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject:

What i call "wild garlic" is the white flowered triangular stalked stuff we get all over the place down here, we also have "proper" garlic growing that has white flowers but all at the top of the stalk like cultivated garlic.. can you eat both? (i was told by a horse owner that wild garlic killed horses....)
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seileasdar · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

Well, if this is wild garlic (the Bärlauch I was writing about)
then it's all good and you can eat it.

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cadfael · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 10:52 am Post subject:

All parts of the plant are edible and good Polgara, use it as you will!!
Salads, (the unopened flower buds have a real "flavour burst"!!) use it as you would spinach, or the bulbs in soups and stews.
Flowers, as Jelly says, are a good edible decoration
Horses will suffer aneamia Jon, and die if left eating any Allium to excess, though equally it appears that a little garlic is good as a suppliment.
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Polgara · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject:

Yes Seils that is the one. It is rife on the Island in certain places real take over time. Must admit I had assumed it was part of the allium family
& had hoped I could use it for the medicinal things as well. Hey ho on with the cooking
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sparhawkiw · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject:

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Polgara · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

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sparhawkiw · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject:

Have just looked up in my wild flower book & latin name is
"Allium ursinum" from the family "Liliaceae"...

Would this not mean it has the similar medicinal properties to other alliums...

Culpepers amongst other things says:

" It provoketh urine"

"curing the biting of mad dogs, & other venemous creatures"

"...In choleric men it will add fuel to the fire; in men oppressed by melancholy, it will attenuate humour, and send up strong fancies, and as many strong visions to the head; therefore let it be taken inwardly with great moderation--- outwardly you may make more bold with it..."

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seileasdar · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject:

If the family name is allium, yes, it will be part of the same family as the other onion plants, including the common kitchen garlic.

So I will stay corrected and say that, yes, they are related.
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Tiggy · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject:

Mine is in flower and I hope to save seeds and get some going in the habitat bits of the garden where it will have a bit of competition from ivy and stuff.

sidecar_jon · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: