SOME STRANGE SALADS
FLOWERS AND ROOTS.
Have you ever eaten flowers or their roots in your salads? Orchid roots were once used as the principal ingredients of a salad. They were mixed with sugar and milk, and were said to be so fortifying that a few ounces were considered to be enough food for a whole day! Sometimes snowdrop bulbs were substituted in this strange mixture.
The history of salads reveals that they did not always contain just the simple vegetables associated with them in the present day. Nineteenth-century England delighted in the introduction of hawthorn buds and young nettles (reputed to have a flavour superior to cabbage) into their salads. Young bracken roots, wild hops and bulrushes were all eaten as a substitute for asparagus. In China lily bulbs are looked on as a tasty food, and some African tribes have been observed making a kind of soup from the petals of bush flowers during times of food shortage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 4
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