[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[Jay Weigel]

Asparagus? You can have mine. All of it. Please.

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> Yes, you dig the roots (or go to one of those old timey "Olde Country
> Stores" somewhere) clean 'em up real good, and boil them.  It's best
> sweetened a little, and tastes a little like hot root beer.  I also grew
> asparagus in East Tennessee.  But as a little girl I have this vague memory
> of going with my parents to some guy's house who had his whole front yard
> (it seemed to the little me) planted in asparagus.  We cut it and took it
> home.  I always loved asparagus, even when my mother served me the canned
> kind, kind of grayish and mushy.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu <javascript:;>
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Sassafras (S. albidum) is a very common understory tree here in
> > Pennsylvania,
> > but I never hear anyone talk about making sassafras tea.  How is it
> made?
> > Do you just dig up some small roots and boil them?
> >
> >
>