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Topic: Potherb


In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Article By Pankaj Oudhia
It was also observed (as mentioned earlier), The use of these potherbs is decreasing day by day as most of people think that these are waste plants which generally grow in polluted areas and can cause harmful diseases.
Many respondents said that the decreasing use of these potherbs in daily diet is that reason why the villagers, specially rural youths are loosing their natural resistance.
The potherb prepared from its fresh leaves is very popular both in rural and urban regions.
www.botanical.com /site/column_poudhia/11_potherbs.html   (1063 words)

  
 Frugal Cooking Spice Guide
It can be eaten, when young, as a potherb and later in salads, soups, stews, and green vegetables.
It can be eaten as a potherb, as a garnish, or as fines herbes.
Use sparingly in sorrel soup, add to deviled eggs or in dairy dishes, spice meats or egg dishes or cook the greens as a potherb.
www.frugalcooking.com /encyclopedia/spices.htm   (4136 words)

  
 Article By Pankaj Oudhia
The natives use the leaves as potherb because of its unique taste.
According to the traditional healers, this potherb posses unique medicinal properties and in many cases, this is more useful as compared to roots.
The use of Musli leaves as potherb is also popular in Musli belts of other parts of India, but its medicinal uses have not been reported.
www.botanical.com /site/column_poudhia/112_harvestingmoosli.html   (1899 words)

  
 The Forestry Forum's Tips, Tricks and Words of Wisdom Edible wild plants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This plant can be used as a potherb, in salad, and as a coffee substitute.
In the summer it can be used as a potherb and in place of spinach.
It is used as a potherb, to treat wounds, to ease and prevent colds, and as a natural antibiotic.
www.forestryforum.com /tips/tips.cgi?display:1003879964-18965.txt   (1698 words)

  
 Portul1.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The common purslane, the only European member of the family, is still grown there as a potherb.
Introduced to America, it has spread throughout the United States and is now a troublesome, fleshy-leaved, garden weed, although Harrington, in Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains, extols the edible virtues of this easily identifiable plant.
Shown on the left is a white form occasionally encountered in Idaho—it may be var.
www.larkspurbooks.com /Portul1.html   (463 words)

  
 Brigham Young University - Idaho Scroll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clover - That lucky plant can be eaten and used to make tea and as a potherb, which is an herb used to flavor food.
Dandelion - Although an annoying weed to many, this plant can be used as a potherb, in salad, and the roots, when ground, can serve as a substitute for coffee.
Wild Garlic - Easily recognized by its potent smell, wild garlic can be used as a potherb, to treat wounds, to ease colds and is a natural antibiotic.
www.byui.edu /Scroll/100802/special12.html   (422 words)

  
 Search for products to control Potherb Mustard based upon pesticides registered in various states to control Potherb ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Potherb Mustard is a 'pest' (an unwanted organism) that can be controlled through the use of pesticides.
Pesticides, such as products to control Potherb Mustard, are regulated by State Departments of Agriculture.
To find all products ever registered at EPA to control Potherb Mustard: www.kellysolutions.com/epadata (login as username: 'Guest' and password: 'Guest' - your results will be limited to 5 items).
www.kellysolutions.com /searchpests/Potherb_Mustard.htm   (421 words)

  
 Untitled1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Its young leaves and tender shoots are used as potherb.
According to Ayurveda, regular (or atleast during rainy season) use of this potherb in small amount is beneficial for the patient suffering from gout and rheumatism.
Regular use of this potherb is believed to cure skin disorders like Leucoderma.
www.herb.com /pankaj3b.html   (364 words)

  
 Evaluation of Tropical Leaf Vegetables in the Virgin Islands
The leaves are used in a young tender stage for salads and sometimes cooked as a potherb.
As a potherb it is prepared in many ways: as a steamed or boiled well-seasoned green, stir-fried, in soups, or mixed with other vegetables.
Their edible qualities are widely appreciated in West Africa where the shoots and leaves are combined in stews to be eaten as a starchy paste.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/proceedings1999/v4-388.html   (3319 words)

  
 Smyrnium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A small genus of erect herbaceous biennial or perennial umbelliferous herbs native to Europe, western Asia and North Africa, with twice- or thrice-alternately compound leaves and small greenish-yellow flowers in many-rayed umbrels.
Smyrnium olusatrum was formerly cultivated and used as a salad and as a potherb, before celery was introduced.
Myrrhe, is the Lachryma of a tree, growing in Arabia, like to the Egypiaca Spina [Acacia arabica], wherein an incision being made, the teares distill downe upon the matts spread under, but somme congeales about the stock of ye tree.
www.pantagruelion.com /p/s/10034.html   (464 words)

  
 Crab Meat & Pigeon Egg Rolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Saute the chive and ginger with little oil, put in crab meat, soy, salt, sugar, rice wine, gourmet powder to braise a while, add the water chestnut powder to make paste, pour vinegar and oil.
Continue to do so with remaining 12 pieces, then deep-fry them in hot oil to be done and take out, then put in leaves of potherb mustard to deep-fry to be crispy and take out.
Place a pigeon sculpted from a squash in the centre of a dish, the leaves of potherb mustard around the pigeon, then circle them with the crab meat and pigeon egg rolls.
www.shme.com /dish/dish072.htm   (166 words)

  
 Perilla
The foliage is used as a potherb, for medicine, and for food coloring.
Korean plantings are often partly harvested first as a potherb, and later the seeds are harvested (Lee et al.
The foliage is used as a potherb and a garnish in Japan.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/cropfactsheets/perilla.html   (1310 words)

  
 Sememe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
be_l.e, be_l.i a common herb used as a potherb, chenopodium album (Ka.)(DEDR 5546).
Potherb: svastike the potherb hingtsha repens (Ka.lex.) cilike the potherb hingtsha repens (Ka.); cilki (Te.); cilike soppu = cilike (Ka.); hilamo_cike, va_stuka (Ka.lex.) va_stuka the pot-herb chenopodium album, cakkavatta, cakravarta (Ka.lex.) bhatua ar.ak chenopodium album (Santali.lex.) cf.
Burkill states that the characteristic smell of the plant, as well as its action, is due to ascaridol, contained in the volatile oil extracted from the plant.
www.hindunet.org /saraswati/Indian%20Lexicon/chenopodium.htm   (749 words)

  
 LokVani-LokVani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is a potherb native of the Asian subcontinent.
Purslane is reported in the literature as a weed, a common potherb, and an unusual medicinal herb.
In his book Walden Pond (1854), Thoreau mentioned that he made a "satisfactory dinner of a dish of purslane," that he gathered and boiled.
www.lokvani.com /lokvani/article.php?article_id=406   (597 words)

  
 botany/portulaca
This and a variety of it, P. oleracea variety sativa can be grown in the vegetable garden.
Even the weedy wild Purslane is good used as a potherb or in a salad, but the cultivated variety is larger and more tender.
Purslane is a trailing annual with reddish, fleshy stems whose joints will form roots when they come in contact with the ground.
www.botany.com /portulaca.html   (380 words)

  
 First Beets Yielded Only Greens
It is believed to have originated in the Mediterranean area, spreading eastward in prehistoric times, with a secondary region of development in the Near East.
	The leaves of the various kinds of beets in ancient times were harvested from the wild for use as a potherb.
Although our modern varieties of chard show improvements in compactness of growth, in size, and in eating quality over the ancient forms, the several types of chard grown today have been known for hundreds, some for thousands, of years.
aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/beets.html   (790 words)

  
 Spinach
Leafy plants are referred to as greens or potherbs and include spinach, kale, collards, and mustard.
Spinach is used as a leafy green and eaten raw in salads.
It is also used as a cooked green (potherb) much like turnip greens or collard greens.
www.uga.edu /vegetable/spinach.html   (2436 words)

  
 botany/phytolacca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
These sprawling, vivid plants can grow 6 to 10 feet high and they produce oblong leaves and sprays of pitch-fl berries.
The young shoots are edible and used as a potherb, but the large, fleshy root is very poisonous.
POTTING: Grow this plant in full sun at intervals of 4 to 6 weeks until late summer to have a continuous supply of fresh leaves.
www.botany.com /phytolacca.html   (283 words)

  
 Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Jute, potherb, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Jute, potherb, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt
Adding other foods with complementary amino acid profiles to this food may yield a more complete protein source, and improve the quality of some types of restrictive diets.
Substituting another food for this one may improve the nutritional quality of your diet and/or make it easier for you to control the number of Calories that you consume.
www.nutritiondata.com /facts-001-02s027k.html   (395 words)

  
 dandelion on Encyclopedia.com
Although it is considered in the N United States chiefly as a lawn pest because of the easily dispersed seeds and the deep root, it is also cultivated both for medicine and for food.
The young leaves resemble chicory and are used for salad greens and as a potherb, especially in Europe.
The roots may be roasted and used as a coffee substitute.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/d1/dandelio.asp   (523 words)

  
 Shandong Dishes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stir scallops into the other half then transfer to the plate, sprinkle with garlic.
Rinse the potherb mustard, squeeze out the water, chop finely.
Heat the oil to 6-fold hot, drop in minced scallion and ginger to season the oil, drop in bean curd paste, dried shrimp, minced potherb mustard, cooking wine, and salt, stir-fry for 3 minutes, transfer to a plate, sprinkle with garlic bolt pieces.
www.chinavista.com /culture/cuisine/shandong/shandong.html   (717 words)

  
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Best used raw in salads and in tomato dishes when the serrated leaves are only two to three inches long.
It can be steamed, cooked as a potherb, or pureed and added to soups.
Harvested leaves can be frozen for later use, similar to spinach or other greens.
www.island.wsu.edu /CROPS/ARUGULA.htm   (442 words)

  
 ChineseSource.com ..Chinese Products and Services
It can vacuum the packs for meat, pickles, sea food, frozen product, garlic, peanut, fruit, medicines, chemicals, rare metals, garments, hardware, electrical components, potherb and edible fungus, thus isolate oxygen and resist humidity, therefore it promises a longer fresh period.
The vacuum packing machine is used to vacuum, seal and print all kinds of plastic film bag, compound film bag and aluminum foil bag.
It can vacuum the packs for meat, pickles, sea food, frozen product, garlic, peanut, fruit, medicines, chemicals, rare metals, garments, hardware, electrical components, potherb and edible fungus, isolate oxygen and resist humidity, thus extend the fresh preservation term.
www.chinesesource.com /company.cfm?companyid=1628   (342 words)

  
 Marisa's Dandelion Patch
The leaves should be harvested in early spring while they are still young and tender; the older leaves are decidedly bitter and tough.
You can use the leaves in salads or cook them as a potherb.
To remove the bitterness, change the water once or twice in cooking.
www.mydandelionpatch.com /dn_recipes.html   (660 words)

  
 Prickly Rose, Rosa acicularis
Rose hips may be preserved by drying and then ground into a powder that may be added to baked goods.
Green hips can be peeled and cooked, and young shoots have been eaten as a potherb.
Leaves, flowers, and buds can be used to make tea; teas made from flowers and buds may relieve diarrhea.
www.rook.org /earl/bwca/nature/shrubs/rosaaci.html   (980 words)

  
 LA Weekly: Dining: Roundabout: Monterey Park After Dark
A specialty of the place is deep-fried pork chops, brown and crunchy and slightly sweet, coated with a salt crust just spicy enough to tingle.
Potherb, home-preserved mustard greens of sorts, can be had stir-fried with shredded bits of said pork or, better, with fresh, sweet soybeans.
If you remember to specify handmade noodles, you'll get thick, wheaty, dense things the thickness of fan belts, fresh enough to soak up an intense pork broth and still retain their texture.
www.laweekly.com /ink/00/11/roundabout-gold.shtml   (1235 words)

  
 Calorie Database
For a more detailed breakdown of nutritional data, simply click on a description for more information.
Jute, potherb, raw - 100 g (100 g)
Jute, potherb, raw - 1 cup (28 g)
www.caloriedatabase.com /browse/sbrowse1301pg23.htm   (166 words)

  
 Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -- X
Young leaves of this and other species are used as a potherb.
The tuberous roots are edible cooked with the taro and name constituting the bulk of many of the sancochos of Panama gently seasoned with aji and heavily seasoned with culantro.
Cuna Indians are said to reproduce the faces of criminals on the leaves.
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /b-online/ibc99/dr-duke/x.html   (368 words)

  
 How to Cook Medieval Vegetables
All of the various available vegetables were frequently lumped together under the term "potherb," which also included edible flowers such as violets and primroses and herbs such as fennel and rue.
Judging by the significant usage of the word "potherb" in Medieval times, vegetables and other plants played a major role in everyday meals, enough that their absence would've resulted in a considerable loss of nutrition and vitamins.
- part of the potherb or wortes variety of vegetables.
www.godecookery.com /how2cook/howto01.htm   (1224 words)

  
 Gardening With Herbs - Cowslip
Leyel says a tea of the flowers at night has a decided narcotic tendency.
John Evelyn gives a recipe for cowslip wine, which requires three pecks of the flowers, "being used to two gallons of water." The leaves are made into salads, and the English, according to Eleanour Rohde, used both leaves and flowers constantly for a potherb, in cowslip cream, puddings, and tarts, as well as in wine.
In olden days, and perhaps even now, they candied and pickled the flowers, and made cowslip tea, syrup, and conserves.
www.oldandsold.com /articles25/herb-gardening-60.shtml   (494 words)

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