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I'm Netta Davis, instructor at Boston University.
Today we're going to talk about wild and foraged foods.
This is Wood Sorrel.
It's one of my favorite wild plants to forage for.
It's growing in almost everybody's lawn.
It's also known as false shamrock because it looks like clover,
but it's not.
This is very lemony.
It's also called sour grass.
Just about every native tribe was familiar with it.
It's antiscorbutic, it's got a lot of Vitamin C in it.
I put it in salads.
It's a nice sort of surprise in a green salad.
Using it in a salad I just use the leaves and the flowers.
You can also use it in the way that you would use a French sorrel.
Sweat it in butter and that's the best sauce for a fish
that otherwise does not have much personality.
My favorite thing to do with wood sorrel besides add it to a salad
is to get a handful of it like this
and pour some boiling water on it
and it makes a wonderful lemony tea.
And that is wood sorrel.