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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Digeroo on May 30, 2017, 11:49:36

Title: Sorrel
Post by: Digeroo on May 30, 2017, 11:49:36

 I have got some bl**dy sorrel. Actually it is not swearing that's what it is called.

But what do I do with it?  The leaves are coarse, the edges sharp and it tastes very bitter.
It  has got a flower head so perhaps that makes it bitter.

I seem to have taken two years to grow something basically inedible.

Title: Re: Sorrel
Post by: Vinlander on May 30, 2017, 14:29:52

Yes, it is sort of attractive and sort of edible -  but even less edible than attractive. A far cry from proper sorrels.

That's the retail sector for you...  There are plenty of other examples of "edible" salad plants whose leaves taste like paper, like Burnet, Orache etc.

Meanwhile, more attractive plants that taste better are neglected* - that just shows how lazy, unobservant and just plain stupid people in marketing are...

* Pink Purslane, Rampion, Lovage, Strawberry Guavas, Chilean Guavas, epicacti, ice plant, Sculpit, Yacon - to name a few.

Cheers.