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Offline Spirithawk

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« on: July 30, 2012, 02:28:01 PM »
Here's a recipe my friends and I would cook up outdoors when we were kids. Pick your Poke and boil the leaves in water. Drain and repeat boiling two more times. That gets rid of any toxins. As we boiled it we'd place potatoes wrapped in foil in the coals of our fire. We'd also roast a couple ears of corn. We'd place the poke in a skillet, dice up the roasted potatoes in with it, shave the kerrnels of corn into it and then add two or three fresh eggs, stirring the mixture untill the eggs have cooked. Season to taste with salt and pepper. It makes a very hearty meal. :)
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Re: Poke
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2012, 10:34:39 PM »
Were do you harvest "poke", and what does it look like?
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Re: Poke
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2012, 03:23:28 AM »
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Re: Poke
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2012, 01:19:10 PM »
If you pick them much earlier in the year, do you have to go through all the detox steps?
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Re: Poke
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2012, 01:57:15 PM »
It's a good idea if ya do. Better safe than sorry. Leaves are best picked before the stalks turn red.
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Re: Poke
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2012, 02:21:08 PM »
If you pick them early when they are about 18" or less, they are tender and you just cook them. You might run into a problem with the older big stalks later in the year.
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Re: Poke
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2012, 02:27:19 PM »
I've heard the red stems are poisonous.  Only the green leaves and then only young tender ones with repeated blanchings.  Also called poke salad. 
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Re: Poke
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2012, 09:19:47 PM »
I have these plants growing all over the place. My Mom would hate when my brother and I would get into these berry's as kids. Them stains never came out of clothes. >:(  It sounds like you have to be very careful with this plant if preparing to eat it.
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Re: Poke
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 12:50:02 AM »
when it gets rank and leggy beat it back so that it will put out new young leaves. Do it before it starts blooming and make a short compact bush. I would always cook and drain or you might get a good "spring tonic" clean out if nothing worse. ear
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Re: Poke
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2012, 12:59:00 AM »
poke salad annie
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Re: Poke
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2012, 04:11:31 AM »
Quote from: SHOOTALL on August 01, 2012, 12:59:00 AM
poke salad annie
Gator got your granny, Tony Joe White. Sock a little polk salit to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBTVKF_mmt4
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Re: Poke
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2012, 04:34:57 AM »
Yep, that's it.  You know the old songs were better.
 
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Re: Poke
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2012, 06:12:03 AM »
Quote from: blind ear on August 01, 2012, 04:11:31 AM
Quote from: SHOOTALL on August 01, 2012, 12:59:00 AM
poke salad annie
Gator got your granny,

CHOMP...  CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP!
 
Never tried it...  :-\   Just can't bring myself to eat sumpin' that I gotta watch out for since it poison!   ::)

The berries made good stain though!   ;D
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Re: Poke
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2012, 07:46:03 AM »
cooked right it taste much like spinach. ear
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Re: Poke
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2012, 08:18:06 AM »
Does it taste like Kudzu?  Kudzu greens and roots are eatable.  The flowers can make jelly.  My wife won't let me try kudzu, poke salit, or dandelions.  I think I might pick me a mess this weekend.  I like turnips, collards, and spinich, so it can't be much different.  Kudzu grows so well, a professor at Auburn University made some alcohol fuel to run his car made from it.  One way to get rid of it.  But then there will be a kudzu shortage. 
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Re: Poke
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2012, 01:01:55 PM »
We picked it when it was 6-8" tall and before the stems had started to turn red.  It's still best to boil it a couple of times and discard the water, otherwise it does a "spring tonic" cleanout for you.  After the third boiling, it's a lot like spinach; the parents would scramble it with eggs or incorporate it with other greens.  I haven't felt the need to eat any since I left home in 1960.   ;)
 
Off the subject of food, a chunk of the root, mashed and boiled into a thin paste, makes a dandy poultice for skin infections. 
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Re: Poke
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2012, 03:36:46 PM »
Quote from: blind ear on August 01, 2012, 07:46:03 AM
cooked right it taste much like spinach. ear
Yep!
 My mother ate it all her life, and use to mix it with turnip greens and fed it to me without me knowing until my brother discovered what was in those turnip greens and told me! Sometimes it acted as a real 'colon cleanser"!!
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Re: Poke
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2012, 03:20:00 PM »
  Last time I ate it I made a whole meal of it. It was a good purgative alright.
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2013, 05:06:26 AM »
The polk is starting to come on now...Wicked witch of the west(one of Dad's many wives)used to make us boys pick it in the summer ,even after it was big...We would tear the polk away from the large veins and main stems running through the leaves..As the "witch" couldn't be bothered with boiling it more than once..never seemed to bother us..
 Now that I'm older I boil polk leaf twice if it's young and older polk leaf three times.. have been known to can it so's I can have some in January.. natures spinach..actually prefer it over spinach..
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Re: Poke
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2013, 06:16:57 AM »
I've heard that if you won't cheat for poke you don't want it bad enough?
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Re: Poke
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2013, 12:57:23 PM »
you're suppose to harvest it young.
and pinch off the leaves instead of
cutting them.
do the two waters then cook like
greens w/ bacon grease.
eat with pickled eggs  ;)
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