Wild Spices
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SWEET SHRUB, SPICE WOOD, CAROLINA ALLSPICE - berries
(limited quantity) Email to order
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Lindera benzoin 1 oz. $3.00 4 oz. $12.00 8 oz. $24.00 16 oz. $45.00 |
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CAROLINA ALLSPICE, , SPICE WOOD,
(Wild Allspice, Spicebush,
Common Spicebush, Northern Spicebush or Benjamin Bush)
- bark, leaf, twigs,
flowers - ethically wild
harvested email for info or to order |
Lindera benzoin* 1 oz. $3.00 4 oz. $10.50 8 oz.$20.00 16 oz. $45.00 |
YELLOW SWEET CLOVER* (Melilotus officinalis)
1 oz. $2.00 - 4 oz. $3.50 - 8 oz. $6.50 - 16 oz. $12.00
WHITE SWEET CLOVER* (Melilotus alba)
1 oz. $2.00 - 4 oz. $3.50 - 8 oz. $6.50 - 16 oz. $12.00
Sumac Seasoning
SUMAC, Stag Horn - Bark, Berries - Rhus glabrum - $2.00 oz, $20.00/lb.
Berries for seasoning should be picked on a day that is dry and sunny. Damp or wet berries will have a sour flavor. Pull berries off twigs, getting only the berry and not the small stem. Put pile of berries in a blender and blend for 1-2 minutes. The seeds will fall to the bottom. Take out the seeds and scrape the red berry pulp from the sides of the blender, and put into a spice container.
SASSAFRAS - Leaf - Sassafras albidium (officinale) - $9.25/lb; $1.25/oz (file' gumbo spice).
Carolina Allspice Berries - email for price
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Penny Cress / Pennycress (Thlaspi perfoliatum) - seasonal fresh; dried available - email for availability and price
Edible Uses
Condiment; Leaves; Seed.
Young leaves - raw or cooked. Bitter to sweet taste and
aroma. Added to salads, cooked in soups or used as a potherb, they taste
somewhat like mustard but with a hint of onion.
The seed is ground into a powder and used as a mustard substitute.
The seed can be sprouted and added to salads.
Image use by permission only of David C. Powell, Forest Silviculturist - http://www.forestryimages.org/
Peppergrass / pepperweed - Lepidium
Edible Uses
Leaves.
Young leaves - raw or cooked[266]. A hot cress-like flavor.
*Caution - White and Yellow Sweet Clover -Dried leaves can be toxic though the fresh leaves are quite safe. This is due to the presence of coumarin, the substance that gives some dried plants the smell of new mown hay. Taken internally it can prevent the blood from clotting.
