This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI WILD PLANTS WITH EDIBLE STEMS AND I often gathered wholesome herbs, which I boiled, or eat as salads with my bread. HAT would you say to a dish of ferns on V T toast? It is quite feasible in the spring, if the Common Bracken (Pteris aquilina, L.) grows in your neighborhood--that coarse, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI WILD PLANTS WITH EDIBLE STEMS AND I often gathered wholesome herbs, which I boiled, or eat as salads with my bread. HAT would you say to a dish of ferns on V T toast? It is quite feasible in the spring, if the Common Bracken (Pteris aquilina, L.) grows in your neighborhood--that coarse, weedy-looking fern with long, cord-like creeping root-stocks and great, triangular fronds topping stalks one to two feet high or more, frequent in dry, open woods and in old fields throughout the United States--the most abundant of ferns. The part to be used for this purpose is the upper portion of the young shoot, cut at the period when the fern shoot has recently put up and is beginning to uncurl. The lower part of the shoot, which is woody, and the leafy tip, which is unpleasantly hairy, are rejected. It is the intermediate portion that is chosen, and though this is LEAVES Gulliver's Travels. loosely invested with hairs, these are easily brushed off. Then the cutting, which resembles an attenuated asparagus stalk, is ready for the pot. Divided into short lengths and cooked in salted, boiling water until quite tender--a process that usually requires a half to three quarters of an hour--the fern may be served like asparagus, as a straight vegetable, or on toast with drawn butter, or as a salad with French dressing. The cooked fern has a taste quite its own, with a suggestion of almond. Its food value, according to some experiments made a few years ago by the Washington State University, is reckoned as about that of cabbage, and rather more than either asparagus or tomatoes. Furthermore, the rootstocks of this fern are edible, according to Indian standards, and are doubtless of some nutritive worth as they are starchy, but the Bracked Shoots...
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VG+ in Not Issued jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Dark green ribbed cloth, illus. in mint green, salmon, and gilt, lettered in gilt. Minimally ex-library, non-circulating institutional collection, lightly stamped, with hand-written call label on lower spine, which has been clear-coated. Mild shelf wear, slightly rubbed at head of spine. [xii], 275 pp., (20) half-tone illus., additional line drawings. 1st thus, of revised edition: Jan. 1926.
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