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From: "J. Cooper Walker" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Poke Salet
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:26:28 -0500
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Hi...My mother and grandmother both told me , only use the fresh new
sprouts, that after it got big it was Not good to eat. They always cautioned
us not to put the berries in our mouth..Of course we did paint everything
with them..!

Later...Joyce
.
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Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Poke Salet


>
> Hi Don and Gals
> You all keep it up tell you are going to get me started again. Like I
> said we lived in the bottom.
>
> Our house was built up off the ground about 8 to 10 feet because every
> winter we would flood out.
>
> We would take the eguipment and the animals up to the levy and turn them
> loose until the water started back down in the spring. I remember about
> the time we would go up to get them the poke would be in full swing.
> Needless to say we would fill up.
>
> As far as the poisonous part could not say. Had heard that, Don't ever
> remember eating it raw. Was always boiled. I Still have a patch out in
> our back yard that I guard with my life.
>
> Get-in about time to start sticking its head up. If the snow will ever
> stay gone. Don I'm not saying to do it but when I get done boiling it I
> drink the water from the boiling.
>
> The new stuff is the best but I still pull the tender leaves and use up
> until it starts putting the berry on. We would use the berry as Indian
> ink and paint each other up
>
> Still kicken
> Jim and Judy ( Shuck ) Montgomery
> JIM M.
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
>> Don wrote: "Remember it is supposed to be poison, so be careful. I boil
>> mine
>> at least two times and pour the water off..."
>>
>> It is poisonous if you eat it raw. My mother always told me that.
>>
>> My mother accidentally ate some that was mixed in with some salad greens
>> someone gave her. It made her very very very sick. Luckily she ate only a
>> tiny amount.
>>
>> ALWAYS COOK IT the right way.
>>
>> Lee Anne
>
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