Ramps (Allium tricoccum)??

Anonymous-0 · Apr 11, 2012

Hey,
Anyone hunt and eat them? Used to get the roots as a kid and they were hard to find (at least in our little piece of SE OH)... FF 30+ years and a guy stopped yesterday trying to get me to sell him something (I didn't shoot him, take his picture, or run him off)....
had a basket full of leaves and gave me a handful. Said the wife would know what they were. I smelled them and the memories came flooding back. Asked him about them and he said the woods a couple hundred yards away for about 4 miles was full of it.... Sure enough.... He didn't know about eating the roots so I pulled a couple and he tried them. Created a monster. I expect to find a mailbox full of them when I get home......
Back on track tho.... Has anyone ever dried and stored them? Do they still have flavor when used?

Thanks, Dave

36 Coupe · Apr 11, 2012

You will smell of garlic if you eat them.There was a fellow who had high blood pressure.Doc tried 3 medicines with no results.Jake went to see an old woman who said eat ramps.Next time Jake went to the Doc his blood pressure was way down.Jake canned the ramps so he could have them year round.Ramps are wild garlic.Your wife will know that you have been eating them.Jake Waldroop was written about in one of the Foxfire books.

Dan in North Houston · Apr 11, 2012

what I wouldn't give for a good mess of ramps!
My grandparents and great-grandparents in WV had big gardens and canned everything - vegtables, beef, sausage, you name it. But I never heard of anyone canning ramps.

Zachary Hoyt · Apr 11, 2012

We have many patches of them in our woods, mostly near wet
patches or vernal pools. They taste very good and we eat both the
roots and leaves. Have never tried to preserve them but I was
thinking about it the other day and wondering how hard it would
be. We also grow 1800 garlic bulbs per year, so that has been our
main supply of that kind of flavor.
Zach

Brad Buchanan · Apr 11, 2012

Never heard of drying ramps Dave but pickling them produces a flavor that is incredible.

They grow wild along some steep slopes on the power lines here.

Takes about a half hour to pick a bucketfull and after you clean them you will have a quart jar full of bulbs.

They do give wicked garlic breath but well worth it.

Regards, Brad

Anonymous-0 · Apr 11, 2012

(quoted from post at 13:57:16 04/11/12) Never heard of drying ramps Dave but pickling them produces a flavor that is incredible.

don't be stingy..... tell me the secret.......

Old Roy · Apr 11, 2012

Darn I must be in a nest of them.. never heard of
them before every time I mow the yard I get hungry
for onion a long stretch along the creek I smell
what we call wild onions must... be the leaves I cut
off I Google them and found the leaves are like
onion and the roots are like a garlic gotta check
that out .

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