Asclepias syriaca
let me first acknowledge Samuel Thayer for what i am about to talk about, it was in his books that i have the reason to try this.
So the myth talks about common milkweed being bitter and having to boil it in three changes of water, not true.
I have eaten this many times this year raw. the first time was with allot of skeptsism though as i cut off the shoot and saw the familiar white milky substance i was not sure, so i dabbed it on my tongue, hmm not bad so i nibble, ok nothing, but what for an after taste ,nope, ok lets chew on it for a spell, hmm refreshing, lets try more.
And so it goes, as sam points out this myth statred with euell gibbons and maybe he ate the wrong stuff or just assumed it was like dandelion, not sure all i know is it can eat this w/o all the lost nutreints and pain of 3 changes of water
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