Sweet cicely

Description:

from this link: http://herbs-treatandtaste.blogspot.co.u... ' It is a much brighter green than hemlock and doesn’t have the purple blotches on its stems' 'Sweet Cicely was formerly used as a salad herb or the root was boiled and used as a vegetable. Its leaves taste sweet and are used with tart fruit such as rhubarb. If you use sweet cicely in cooking, reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe. You can use its seeds instead of cloves in apple pies, or grind them and add them to spice mixtures. If you chew a leaf the flavour is reminiscent of anise or liquorice, and smells like lovage, another bee plant.' The link mentions how to cook the roots as if they were parsnips and use to flavour soups and stews.

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july 2014 folder