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Eating Muscari bulbs?

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SueG:
Hey ho so yet another money making scheme hits the dust!
Still I think I might go and annoy my local italian restaurant and deli to see if I can find a jar of them anywhere - I'll report back.
Maggi - that recipe page is wonderful!


Sue

Anthony Darby:
I think some muscari bulbs are eaten in Crete?

I also seem to remember reading about soldiers in days of yore sending daffodil bulbs home to their loved ones. Needless to say, instead of being planted they were treated as "some form of onion" with fatal results (we get our word narcotic from Narcissus).

Anthony Darby:
According to "Wildflowers of Crete" [Vangelis Papiomitoglou and translated by Jill Pittinger:2006 Mediterraneo Editions ISBN 960-8227-77-1] "the bulbs of Muscari comosum constitute an excellent appetiser known as skordouláki, especially on Crete".

Diane Whitehead:
M. comosa is not the only species eaten.  Here are two more.

From Cornucopia II, A Source Book of Edible Plants, by Stephen Facciola:

Leopoldia comosa:  bulbs boiled with oil and vinegar, pickled, or added to omelettes.
 Greeks and Italians believe they are diuretic and stimulate appetite. Preserved
bulbs are common in ethnic markets in North America.

Muscari botryoides flowers and flower buds can be pickled in vinegar.

Muscari neglectum, nutmeg hyacinth, flowers add a wonderful scented flavour
when sprinkled over rhubarb.  Bulbs are also eaten.

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