Fiddleheads - Shoots of the Ostrich Fern; they are edible when picked when the shoots are a few inches from the ground and boiled for at least 10 minutes.
posted by Bill @ 4:30 AM
Friday, April 29, 2005
Fiddleheads - Shoots of the Ostrich Fern; they are edible when picked when the shoots are a few inches from the ground and boiled for at least 10 minutes.
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3 Comments:
Hey, I just read a book where the character pickled fiddleheads. Said they were something to do with ferns... now I have an image to go with the words.
Thanks!
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Glad to be of help. You can learn all kinds of minutia here.
These are not the fiddleheads of ostrich ferns. Ostrich fern fiddleheads have a papery, copper covering.
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