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Pamela Michael is excited by the possibilities of weeds. Her book Edible Wild Plants and Food is full of ideas for using the plants which run wild in hedgerows and gardens.
Great handfuls of chickweed, she suggests, can be boiled down as a soup which is like a milder version of spinach. Dandelions, meanwhile, can be partnered with crispy bacon, in place of lettuce for an unusual salade tide.See the full content of this document
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Pioneer Still Hot On Trail of Free Food
Another favourite is ground elder, the curse of so many gardeners because it spreads like wildfire. The evil smell while cooking, she assures us, is not present in the cooked dishes. Sea lettuce, a bright green seaweed which grows in rock pools, she suggests using as a thickening agent in soups.
Pamela's absolute favourite of the food that can be gathered for free though is the elder b...See the full content of this document
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