side tracked

[xxx]

dandilion wine is in shine is out, lol

[olddog]

dandilion wine is in shine is out, lol

I don't understand the post, please explain.

[LWTCS]

Sounds like a declaration of success.

[Fastill]

He's making dandelion wine instead of likker. It's spring time and the weeds will be covering every cemetary, football field and lawn yellow for the next month.
Properly made, some of the best tasting wine one can make.

[still crazy]

trick is you have to pull the dandelions before they flower or they go bitter.
They make a great salad too . Pop em out by the roots. cut off the tops wash well salt pepper oil lemon juice yum

[Dnderhead]

""trick is you have to pull the dandelions before they flower or they go bitter.""
with what Iv seen you cut off all the greens and just use the flowers.

[Fastill]

""trick is you have to pull the dandelions before they flower or they go bitter.""
with what Iv seen you cut off all the greens and just use the flowers.

Yep, he's making wine, not salad....
Although... I have made cooked green salad with dandelion greens, and although you can't get drunk, it does taste darn good.

[Dnderhead]

when they start to grow, cover with newspaper,,cardboard whatever, this will "bleach" them, they will be milder good for salads.but not good for wine.

[xxx]

yup making wine while i can. its great wine.if your interested ill tell you how. 1 gal dadilions just the heads , 1 gal water boil let sit 36 hrs take that juice squeeze and take out dandilions keep all juice add 4 lemons cut up peels and all 4 oranges cut up ,4pds sugar 2 pakets yeast let sit till done bubbling,filter,bottle let sit 2 or three weeks its easy and good . going to go back to still project when done

[cob]

round here dandilion is is refered to as "old stump blower" and the wine snobs remain just that. good stuff, x. cob

[blanikdog]

... 1 gal dadilions just the heads ...

What are the heads? Is it the flowers or the leaves or both. Clearly not the roots.

blanik

[Dnderhead]

dandelion wine you use just the flowers, removing "all green" other flowers can be used, just make sure their not toxic.
and for you distillers out there, flowers can be used to add "bouquet" to your spirits.

[blanikdog]

OK thanks Dunder. A gallon of flowers would take several years for me to gather, perhaps decades. Not a lot of dandelions around these parts.

blanik

[Dnderhead]

Iv read up what I could about your country, its a wonder the natives survived.not much in the way of natural food.much is toxic unless cooked,processed a certain way.I fiend such very interesting.

[blanikdog]

Indigenous women kept the people alive by digging 'yam' roots, grubs (very tasty) grinding seed and catching small repliles and mammals. Men caught a kangaroo or something every month or so and they had a feast. Moths were also a very popular food along the east coast. BIG moths, full of nourishment. They had some 50,000 years to adapt. Lots of food from rivers and seas. There is an astounding amount of food available if you know what to look for. I wanted to do my thesis on their economy but it didn't work out for me.

They even had stuff to smoke but I haven't tried it.

blanik

[ct1870]

This sounds great. I have them all in the yard but have put weed killer for them and the clover. Damn!! Will have to go the pasture and pick some and try it. Thanks for the info.

[LWTCS]

its a wonder the natives survived

The indigenous peoples could also have an "X" gene. Much like what the Soone indians here in the states have. This gene enables these people to very efficiantly extract all possible nutritional value from the foods they eat.

In these relatively modern times however, this tool that allowed these people to thrive in harsh conditions for centuries (if not thousands of years) has became a liability as their bodies could not adjust to the high sugar and processed food diets of our imposed economy based food supply mongers.

Now these people, in many cases are wrought with diabetes and other weight/ health related issues due to not being able to prepare traditional foods as well as over eating like so many other Americans.

[blanikdog]

Excellent point, Larry.

blanik