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bet theyre perfect for pickling them like kapers too! oh and another topic somewhat haha: with dandelions battering them in cornstarch batter with a spoon full spelt flour and just enough water to get it somewhat liquid worked very well. naturally tastes like cornmais because of its high pollen content. the protein in the pollen splits under heat like it does in meatprotein and releases its cornflavour. very tasty very unexpected good alternative to a salad of those and looks just nice. wouldnt surprise me if battering and frying worked here too :DD i really please you to try this since i did im looking forwards for dandelions and false dandelions being in season like any other herb or vegetable since its quite filling :) btw since the batter is flavourless you can eat thefirst half salted or powdered in some spicemix and the rest with powdered sugar, maple sirup or whatever i always like stuff like that :D oh and i bet a tempura batter would look even better especially if you could see the yellow through the dough :D
That bit at 13:16 or so, when Juniper mimicked your mouth-click was adorable! ^_^ I'm a long-time fn of burdock, but we don't get a ton of catsear here in Ontario - so I was unaware of its culinary potential. Toally going to try it when I get the chance!
Yup. This happens whenever you eat a starch to which your body is not accustomed. Eat it a few times (perhaps when you have no social plans), and the gas will diminish over time. This is true of burdock, sunchokes, beans and most other starches.
Rabbit hole: ALL the stuff at the produce grocery store isn't what we should be eating. Instead it's already growing outside. *why is dandelion made to be so bad?!
Tale stopped before finished...: ( What to do during aging? Bubbles? f How long? MOre alc by more sugar? thank you, nice ab natural yeast.I'd boil all water + cool down.
Hi, that looks so good. You can also wash your jars in hot soapy water, shake the water off and put them in the microwave for about a minute and a half and they'll be sterilized. I'm making some! Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🐴🇺🇸⚒️🇺🇸🌱
There are vegans who won't eat honey because it was made by bees. I personally don't have anything* against real honey, however I'm not a vegan. This recipe is good for someone who wants to make a honey substitute that taste like the real thing.
@@TheNorthwestForager I didnt know that,but if they that serious surely the sweat off the farmers hands makes food not vegan too lo, This year I think it's a really good show of dandelions so I will go for a walk and collect some.honey madden from dandelions seems like a neat idea
It’s not vegan because vegans avoid causing harm to animals as much as practicable, bees are animals, some bees are killed during honey harvesting and some cruel tactics are used in commercial bee keeping. Since you don’t need honey to live and can practicably avoid it, it’s not vegan
This recipe is a dandelion flavored sugar syrup. As far as I understand, excessive consumption of any form of sugar is unhealthy, even bee-made honey. Personally I'd consider this better than eating straight sugar but not better than abstaining from sugar, if that helps...
I have a few of these growing in the back of my in law’s property. I was planning to collect seeds once they’re ready/easy to pull out of the flower to make a tincture. Would the “hearts” be edible/good at this stage, or do the flowers need to be barely open? Maybe I’ll plant a perimeter of these around my chicken run once I build that so I have plenty of “artichoke” that also serves as a barrier between predators and my hens…
The ones in this video were past their prime. If you were to harvest them for the mini artichoke then the best time is just before the flower bud opens.
I'm excited to see how you'll use the dandelion pedals! And I'd be interested to see any other recipes using dandelions as well. I plan on making this!
All you really made was a simple syrup. Honey is an absolute misnomer here, as honey is made by bees, not with cane sugar. If it were truly vegan, they'd try to make it taste like meat. We are omnivorous, hence incisors and canines , not all molars.
we're 1.5 minutes in and it's no longer a foraging video. Cool story buddy. You dont need to make results for youtube to be good, just make good content. Shortcunts suck.
Making this right now! (Harvested and made the tea overnight, last evening.) Hoping it turns out lovely as I want to gift a jar to each of my son’s homeschool teachers!
It's real sugar, just not bee honey. The purpose is to make a sugar syrup that tastes similar to honey not a diet syrup. Vegan means no animal products, has nothing to do with health. If you are concerned about sugar intake than this recipe isn't for you.
Hello Henry, Your pocket book is sold out on Etsy. Will you be getting more copies soon? I'm really looking forward to it! Need to get 2 copies please.
I've never tried dried dandelion for this but don't see why it shouldn't work. I'd imagine you wouldn't need as much petals. The shelf life is as good as any sugar syrup. It will most likely crystallize before going bad.
@TheNorthwestForager The step where I boiled the water and added to the jar of full of dandelions, I tightened the lid pretty tight tight. After I opened the lid, water shot out everywhere
Have you tried water bathing the jars after you fill them with the "honey" for longer storage time? Or do the lids typically ping just from the boiling/filling process? Just curious...
Yeah that's a good idea but whether you can taste it or not the smoke it's going to affect the flavor in boiling process of the syrup even if it tastes like it's really good syrup that smoke doesn't evaporate and does get boiled into the syrup a little bit what's the weather people believe it or not so it would be better to try to have a boiling system for the smoke doesn't doesn't have contact with the top of the syrup that you're boiling because I guarantee that smoke is hitting the top of that boiling syrup share list which can possibly it's not done boiled down syrup and cause it to have a smoky flavor if not careful
