Ah, dandelions! (We also grew up knowing their alternate names of “pee your bed”) As long as you cut the central spines out of the leaves and only use the newest and freshest leaves tehy are great as part of a mixed salad or you can wilt them in to curries etc a la saag dishes.
Traditionally dandelion heads for use in making dandelion wine should be picked on Saint George’s day for best results.
Also dandelion milk has been utilised as an ersatz rubber latex, and according to my old granny a long long time ago you can also use them in the seed stage for telling the time back in the days before you could buy a quartz wristwatch for the price of a pork pie, when the ludicrous inaccuracy of the process was perhaps a teensy bit less obvious!
Ah, dandelions! (We also grew up knowing their alternate names of “pee your bed”) As long as you cut the central spines out of the leaves and only use the newest and freshest leaves tehy are great as part of a mixed salad or you can wilt them in to curries etc a la saag dishes.
Traditionally dandelion heads for use in making dandelion wine should be picked on Saint George’s day for best results.
Also dandelion milk has been utilised as an ersatz rubber latex, and according to my old granny a long long time ago you can also use them in the seed stage for telling the time back in the days before you could buy a quartz wristwatch for the price of a pork pie, when the ludicrous inaccuracy of the process was perhaps a teensy bit less obvious!