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I find the best way to cook fiddleheads is to use enough water to cover
them; bring them to a boil and drain off the water. I usually do this a
couple of times and then continue cooking them until they are tender.
Growing up in New Brunswick it is not spring without a "good feed" of
fiddleheads and trout!
Marian Fulton
Hantsport NS
-----Original Message-----
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
[mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of David & Alison
Webster
Sent: 02 May 2007 21:10
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Fiddleheads
Hi Roland & All, May 2, 2007
South of a line drawn between Digby and Canso it is very rare. North
of this line they are by no means common but scattered or locally
abundant in areas that are subject to flooding.
Based on vague memory of similar distribution patterns, i.e. mostly
north or mostly south of this line, (_Potamogeton_/bedrock; 52 years
ago) it is probably largely bedrock and thus soil related.
Fiddleheads sometimes have a bitter aftertaste. Most of this
bitterness is removed if a raw potato is diced to 1-cm cubes, boiled
with the ferns and then discarded.
Yt, DW
Roland McCormick wrote:
> This is the first time I have heard anyone in NS speak of fiddleheads,
> and I was born and grew up here. In NB, where my wife is from, looking
> for fiddleheads in the spring is almost a national pastime. I had a
> friend tell me he found some in Ontario one time, but no one would
> think of eating them there.
> In the distant days of my youth dandilions were the things to
> dig - a good sized basket of dandilion greens was woth ten cents.
>
> Roland.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Alison Webster"
> <dwebster@glinx.com>
> To: <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:11 PM
> Subject: [NatureNS] Fiddleheads
>
>
>> Dear All, May 1, 2007
>> I was in the vicinity of a Fiddlehead stand today so checked them.
>> In this north facing ravine (New Minas) the crooks had not yet
>> started to emerge. The fertile fronds still shed clouds of spores
>> when tapped.
>>
>> Yt, DW, Kentville
>>
>
>
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