My family eats a good meal of dandelion leaves each spring. Warm, mixed with vinegar and bacon. Served over whole fried potatoes and hard boiled eggs. My wife also makes dandelion jam from the flowers. Absolutely delicious.
I am constantly fighting our HOA on dandelions, they grow eleven months out of the year here. So, we always have a mass amount, while we don't eat them because we have dogs and well they have run of the yard besides our garden area. The bees absolutely love them in February when the bees start emerging from winter and not a whole lot is growing. So, I let them bee...
We lived with my grandmother when I was little. She would harvest dandelion leaves from the yard and boil them with a little vinegar, as is done with collards. She claimed it was a tonic at the end of winter. (In those days grocery stores didn’t have fresh produce in the winter so we went a long time without greens.) She was a Baptist, so dandelion wine was out of the question.
Good spin on dandelions. I look forward to this series. I hope you will cover common mullein and tiger lillies. Another thought for an episode is "invasive plants" of Pennsylvania like tiger lilies, wine berries, and purple loosestrife to name a few.
I grew up in PA eating dandelion greens or dandelion salad with a bacon dressing. My grandma used to make dandelion wine. It was good for what ailed you according to my grandma.
The Dandelion is the most beautiful flower of spring and smells so wonderful, and they have so many good qualities.. It was the first flower I recognized as a small child, and as your childhood yard, my yard is full of Dandelions and a variety of other small plants. Love the new series.
My mother and I used to eat the dandelion greens with home made hot bacon dressing. We used it as a meal by itself and sometimes had salt water potatoes and ham with it. It was a tradition to have it at Easter as well. We used to fight for the leftover dandelion too. In Pennsylvania Dutch it's called Pissebet. I don't mind picking it but I hate cleaning it.
Good job Cliff. It’s funny, I’m doing a series on medicinal plants and dandelion is my first one too lol just because it’s familiar to everyone and an easy start. I haven’t released it yet but it’s coming. Dandelion is a cool plant. It’s nice having someone that admires the medicinal qualities of these plants that were given to us to use. Natures first medicine. Actually I don’t know why they call it alternative medicine as herbs were here and used first. Seems like traditional medicine (I have nothing bad to say about traditional medicine) would be call the alternative.
Love these types of videos Cliff. The marker charts really add something to the presentation! This is classic WW content, thanks for the info on Dandelion, looking forward to more medicinal plant uploads, this is very practical and useful information.
Thanks for the update !!!! I save all the dandy lion seeds that I find !!!! To plant and grow dandy lions in our community garden ( zone 9 b in Sacramento County , California USA ) growing food for the neighborhood !!!!
My grandmother used to pick dandelion leaves in the spring for salad. She made a hot bacon/vinegar/sugar dressing that wilted the leaves, and then sluced hard-boiled egg on top.
Now this brings back memories - when I was a child I'd help Dad dig out dandelions from the grass. We'd toss them on the heap out back near a small wooded area on the property. We never really "used" the picked dandelions. To this day I'm the only one in my family who eats dandelion greens in a salad. I have eaten violets (flowers and leaves), nasturtium (flowers and leaves), marigold flowers, grape leaves from our grape vine. Never used any insecticides on them so they were quite safe to eat.
My daughter's picked bouquets in the yard to give me. I kept a vase at the kitchen sink for them. I of them came in the house, she was 3 or 4, just bawling because Daddy mowed "my" flowers and I can't give you any. I had to calm her down and reassure her that they would be back in a day or two. I made jewelry with the stems when a kid. They are hallow and you make chain links.
Our house had an open field nearby and in spring, it would be filled with dandelions. It was spectacular to see. My grandma ate the blossoms and would make dandelion wine out of them. We also ate the young greens with hot bacon dressing on them. Oh yum!!!! However, eating too much greens can be a bit rough on one's digestion. It's best to mix with your regular salad greens. Thanks for this series!
I've been following your channel for quite some time and enjoy it very much. This series is definitely going to have me locked in. Wild edibles and medicinals is a super awesome study. Thank you, from Lancaster, PA.
Cliff - my parents used to harvest dandelion greens in the spring. My father would drive to the country and ask if the farmers had used any weed killer along the road. Then we would take our buckets and knives and dig them out along the country road. This would be before they and any buds forming. Mom would rinse them well and boil them with bacon bits. We would serve them over boiled potatoes and top them off with chopped boiled eggs and salt and pepper. They were delicious
👍💯%💕👏👏👏. Yes Dandelions are very much mistaken for a weed it is not. Thank you Cliff for showing this. My uncles used make wine with them. Since I don't use chemicals or pesticides on my lawn. I pick them as soon as they get big enough. Yes I've made tenure or medicine with them. They have multiple purposes. If only people knew what they was destroying.😣 how it helped so many during the Depression.i look forward to seeing more of these Videos.👍. Love,respect and positivity always. Neita. ✌🖖🕯🦋🌻🙂👋👣.
Hello from Ohio I take the blooms and clean them and then I soak them in salt water for about an hour or so and then I roll them egg batter and flour and fry them and they taste just like the morel mushrooms and I also clean the roots and boil them and make dandy lion tea out of it
Dandelion Wine was supposedly one of my great grandfathers specialties. Among other things that he might’ve gotten in some trouble for during prohibition. Never got to meet him unfortunately.
My mother and PA Dutch grandmother would eat the dandelions preparing them just like spinach. They are much better when very young. Note that there are several varieties of the plant, the ones with the pointy leaves are bitter, you want the wider and more rounded leaves.
Grandma used to make tea by boiling the flowers in cheese cloth. She made wine, ate the leaves raw in salads, or cooked like spinach, added the leaves to soups too.
I've had dandelions 3 times this week. I do the pancake batter way, tastes kinda like mushrooms. think I might try them raw and boiled. I have alot, my yard is full of them.
Well I can't name many weeds but I know a dandelion when I see one. I have some neighbors whose lawns are actually a lawn of dandelions. I walk everyday. I think when there is that many the lawn looks fine. My lawn does not have any as I treat for weeds April 1st. When one does, from time to time, rear it's "out of place" yellow head it gets a dose of weed b gone spray. Too each their own, if we all agreed on everything I think that would make a very dull world. Thanks for the information Cliff.😀😀😀
I get them out of the turf areas I mow because the bees that go to them, and all other turf weed flowers, dont move when the mower is approaching, and I dont at all want to run them over all day. I encourage customers to have natural areas for all that, and keep the turf just grass
My family eats a good meal of dandelion leaves each spring. Warm, mixed with vinegar and bacon. Served over whole fried potatoes and hard boiled eggs.
My wife also makes dandelion jam from the flowers. Absolutely delicious.
I am constantly fighting our HOA on dandelions, they grow eleven months out of the year here. So, we always have a mass amount, while we don't eat them because we have dogs and well they have run of the yard besides our garden area. The bees absolutely love them in February when the bees start emerging from winter and not a whole lot is growing. So, I let them bee...
These plants helped my dad survive while marching across Germany during ww2.
Most important about not destroying dandelions and other early blooming flowers- insects depend upon them for food. I love them.
Great share!! Looking forward to more😊. Thanks so much!
We lived with my grandmother when I was little. She would harvest dandelion leaves from the yard and boil them with a little vinegar, as is done with collards. She claimed it was a tonic at the end of winter. (In those days grocery stores didn’t have fresh produce in the winter so we went a long time without greens.) She was a Baptist, so dandelion wine was out of the question.
Good spin on dandelions. I look forward to this series. I hope you will cover common mullein and tiger lillies. Another thought for an episode is "invasive plants" of Pennsylvania like tiger lilies, wine berries, and purple loosestrife to name a few.
My yard is full of them!
I've always looked at the dandelions as pretty yellow flowers. It's saved me a lot of money and work over the years!
Glad you are doing this series again. Your knowledge on this is great. Thanks Cliff.
I grew up in PA eating dandelion greens or dandelion salad with a bacon dressing. My grandma used to make dandelion wine. It was good for what ailed you according to my grandma.
also the milkie sap can sooth and stop the itching effects of poison ivy and mosquitoe bites.
The Dandelion is the most beautiful flower of spring and smells so wonderful, and they have so many good qualities.. It was the first flower I recognized as a small child, and as your childhood yard, my yard is full of Dandelions and a variety of other small plants. Love the new series.
I love the dandelions coz they attract the bees and they are a beautiful splash of colour in the lawn. Thanks for share. Please stay safe
Exciting series!! Thank you! 🌼
Thank you for this series, Cliff.
I'm excited for this series! Thank you!
My mother and I used to eat the dandelion greens with home made hot bacon dressing. We used it as a meal by itself and sometimes had salt water potatoes and ham with it. It was a tradition to have it at Easter as well. We used to fight for the leftover dandelion too. In Pennsylvania Dutch it's called Pissebet. I don't mind picking it but I hate cleaning it.
Good job Cliff. It’s funny, I’m doing a series on medicinal plants and dandelion is my first one too lol just because it’s familiar to everyone and an easy start. I haven’t released it yet but it’s coming. Dandelion is a cool plant. It’s nice having someone that admires the medicinal qualities of these plants that were given to us to use. Natures first medicine. Actually I don’t know why they call it alternative medicine as herbs were here and used first. Seems like traditional medicine (I have nothing bad to say about traditional medicine) would be call the alternative.
Love these types of videos Cliff. The marker charts really add something to the presentation! This is classic WW content, thanks for the info on Dandelion, looking forward to more medicinal plant uploads, this is very practical and useful information.
I have a lot of Chinese in my neighborhood in Philly now and I see them picking the Dandelions and then they make soup.
Thanks for the update !!!! I save all the dandy lion seeds that I find !!!! To plant and grow dandy lions in our community garden ( zone 9 b in Sacramento County , California USA ) growing food for the neighborhood !!!!
I was just looking at several bunches of the flowers and leaves! I am going to go back and harvest them..thanks for the video!
My grandmother used to pick dandelion leaves in the spring for salad. She made a hot bacon/vinegar/sugar dressing that wilted the leaves, and then sluced hard-boiled egg on top.
Now this brings back memories - when I was a child I'd help Dad dig out dandelions from the grass. We'd toss them on the heap out back near a small wooded area on the property. We never really "used" the picked dandelions. To this day I'm the only one in my family who eats dandelion greens in a salad. I have eaten violets (flowers and leaves), nasturtium (flowers and leaves), marigold flowers, grape leaves from our grape vine. Never used any insecticides on them so they were quite safe to eat.
Just discovered you. Loved the 300 year old cemetery!!!
Love hiking and discovering things too!!!
My daughter's picked bouquets in the yard to give me. I kept a vase at the kitchen sink for them. I of them came in the house, she was 3 or 4, just bawling because Daddy mowed "my" flowers and I can't give you any. I had to calm her down and reassure her that they would be back in a day or two. I made jewelry with the stems when a kid. They are hallow and you make chain links.
Our house had an open field nearby and in spring, it would be filled with dandelions. It was spectacular to see. My grandma ate the blossoms and would make dandelion wine out of them. We also ate the young greens with hot bacon dressing on them. Oh yum!!!! However, eating too much greens can be a bit rough on one's digestion. It's best to mix with your regular salad greens. Thanks for this series!
I've been following your channel for quite some time and enjoy it very much. This series is definitely going to have me locked in. Wild edibles and medicinals is a super awesome study. Thank you, from Lancaster, PA.
My back yard looks like one big dandelion...lol
Godspeed Cliff. Keep it comin.
Thank you so much for the lesson on dandelions. I plan on trying to make wine sometime.
Cliff - my parents used to harvest dandelion greens in the spring. My father would drive to the country and ask if the farmers had used any weed killer along the road. Then we would take our buckets and knives and dig them out along the country road. This would be before they and any buds forming. Mom would rinse them well and boil them with bacon bits. We would serve them over boiled potatoes and top them off with chopped boiled eggs and salt and pepper. They were delicious
Great vid, Woodsman. When we were kids my Mom would cook the new tender leaves of the dandelion with scrambled eggs and some olive oil…delish.
Great video thanks! Another thing to beware of is make sure it's not near a farm field that may have been sprayed with Roundup etc...
👍💯%💕👏👏👏. Yes Dandelions are very much mistaken for a weed it is not. Thank you Cliff for showing this. My uncles used make wine with them. Since I don't use chemicals or pesticides on my lawn. I pick them as soon as they get big enough. Yes I've made tenure or medicine with them. They have multiple purposes. If only people knew what they was destroying.😣 how it helped so many during the Depression.i look forward to seeing more of these Videos.👍. Love,respect and positivity always. Neita. ✌🖖🕯🦋🌻🙂👋👣.
So interesting. I've got lots of dandelions in my lawn, didn't realize you could eat them.
Yesterday I had two separate complimentary comments on this video deleted. I don't understand.
Not sure what happened, it's not the first time, others have noted it as well. A big site like youtube has 'bugs' at times.
@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 Thanks Cliff, I was worried you might be mad at me, hahaha. Keep up the great work.
a good old pa.dutch meal with dandelions is to steam them a bit in bacon dressing and poured over salt water potatoes sooooooooooo good !!!
Hello from Ohio I take the blooms and clean them and then I soak them in salt water for about an hour or so and then I roll them egg batter and flour and fry them and they taste just like the morel mushrooms and I also clean the roots and boil them and make dandy lion tea out of it
I had no idea you could eat dandelions or that they were anything more than a flower. Very interesting. I'll have to try them.
Dandelion Wine was supposedly one of my great grandfathers specialties. Among other things that he might’ve gotten in some trouble for during prohibition. Never got to meet him unfortunately.
My mother and PA Dutch grandmother would eat the dandelions preparing them just like spinach. They are much better when very young. Note that there are several varieties of the plant, the ones with the pointy leaves are bitter, you want the wider and more rounded leaves.
i'll have to try one... thanks!
Grandma used to make tea by boiling the flowers in cheese cloth. She made wine, ate the leaves raw in salads, or cooked like spinach, added the leaves to soups too.
Yes natural is best!
I've had dandelions 3 times this week. I do the pancake batter way, tastes kinda like mushrooms. think I might try them raw and boiled. I have alot, my yard is full of them.
My wife makes dandelion jelly. Tastes like honey.
Makes a great tasting jelly.
Well I can't name many weeds but I know a dandelion when I see one. I have some neighbors whose lawns are actually a lawn of dandelions. I walk everyday. I think when there is that many the lawn looks fine. My lawn does not have any as I treat for weeds April 1st. When one does, from time to time, rear it's "out of place" yellow head it gets a dose of weed b gone spray. Too each their own, if we all agreed on everything I think that would make a very dull world. Thanks for the information Cliff.😀😀😀
Have made dandelion wine eat the leaves with salad and violets and flowers
I get them out of the turf areas I mow because the bees that go to them, and all other turf weed flowers, dont move when the mower is approaching, and I dont at all want to run them over all day. I encourage customers to have natural areas for all that, and keep the turf just grass
Hi Cliff loads Dandelion in my bk gard but Yeh met north Pennsylvanians tonight Hi Brian Ireland
My tortoises love to eat them
how can. you eat them Without Have something To. Drink with You
I like this series but i dont like the howl when the video starts it scares me everytime