12 Things to Make with Dandelion Flowers

[tortoise]

DS12 drank 2 cups of dandelion tea. Doesn't like it but he doesn't like being constipated either. I suppose I will collect plenty and dehydrate them for the rest of the year.

 

[Hinotori]

Cant you add some mint to it to help with taste? Or does mint interfere?

 

[Marianne]

I only knew there is a dandelion cultivar that is grown for it's roots. They are dried and roasted for a coffee of sorts.

We've dug dandelion roots before. It was plenty of work to get a small bucket full, lots of rinsing, then the roasting and chopping. By the time it was done, we had about a pint jar full. And the coffee/tea didn't taste good at all. We had dug ours in the late, late fall. I wonder if the spring roots would have tasted better.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

@Marianne - Have you been sun drying them? I need to get on picking some that we have here and was curious to know if sun drying was the way to go, or putting them in the dehydrator?

 

[CrealCritter]

One of my son's reaches down picks a flower and eats it. But this one of my son's that about eat us out of house and home as a teen.

 

[Marianne]

I've been known to do that, too. I get the 'raised eyebrow' look from my husband then.
The petals are mild tasting, it's the green part that's bitter. I've battered and fried the blooms before. Nice! I could eat a platter of those.