Stinging Nettle Soup - 18th Century Cooking

How to make stinging nettle soup. A highly nutritious and historically accurate food.
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18th Century Cooking Season 2 Episode 6

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[@yayasorensen4351]

It's like watching Bob Ross as a chef instead of a painter. Sooo relaxing and makes you want to try doing it.

[@peterwilliams3672]

77777((7’Yaya Sorensen

[@Drunk3n1rish2009]

Accurate. I completely agree. Love this channel

[@animequeen78]

A good way to learn survival when our society implodes on itself.

[@francisdrake6622]

@@animequeen78 Well that'll never happen...er wait...

[@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274]

quite

[@charityhebert2640]

"A little bit of butter" *dumps like an entire stick of butter in the pan* I like this guy

[@hanwenhengliu3776]

Just like Gordon Ramsay's "dash of olive oil". That's a chef for you

[@swaters5127]

A stick is a little bit.

[@kalleandersson916]

If you have enough butter you can do anything

[@blessedwithchallenges9917]

I love the taste. I put it in Ramen with peas, making Ramen a bit nutritious. I drink it just like tea and eat the leaves like cooked spinach. Don't be scared of the sting, drop it in hot water and the sting is gone in seconds. If you let the dry leaves sit for a few days the sting dries up and you can eat it raw, but it's a papery texture, so not as fun to eat. I just this morning got a wasp sting and my hand was throbbing. I could see the little red spot on my palm, and it really stung. I put nettle tea (in my fridge) on the spot - just a half teaspoon or so, and within seconds the sting was gone - and 20 minutes later I can't see the spot! How cool is that? A stinging nettle can relieve wasp stings! Nature is awesome...thank you God for being so creative as we discover all these things with wonder...

[@JackSilver1410]

I get a lot of nettles growing around here and they've tagged me more than a few times... Come springtime, I think it's time I got some payback.

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

+Laughing Man You WON'T regret it! :)

[@ericward8459]

Hell yeah!

[@internetguy8075]

It's the circle of life.

[@Greentrees60]

Just don't mix up nettles and thistles!!

[@guerraflorida]

Darth Karnis 😂

[@IrishKeshiHead]

is it me.. or is this video a bit shorter than it should have been.. it just abruptly ends

[@tammyt3434]

You can hear the closing theme start up and get cut off, so you're correct.

[@ricktwisty5636]

As soon as he said it was the perfect time to go out and pick them, the cameraman went off to pick them.

[@JohnDoe-jz7bj]

@@ricktwisty5636 Haha

[@Borkomora]

perhaps some copyright issues or something so he just cut it off in post

[@RinnzuRosendale]

Dude couldn't wait to go pick em.

[@eviljoel]

Nettle soup is relatively popular in Sweden, even today.

[@mixererunio1757]

Nettle tea is very popular in Poland

[@carramills8270]

It used to be popular in the British isles until recently but people have lost their culture here in the last few decades.

[@levibergstein4541]

Same here in Finland. Nettle pancakes too!

[@nairb2693]

@@carramills8270 waaaaaaaaah

[@paendabear21]

@@nairb2693 why are you crying like a baby? Is this supposed to be a jeer/jest at someone who is disappointed in the lack of cultural commitment in the Western world. Or is it just a representation of what you are: someone who isn't smart enough to respond with something other than the represented sound of a baby crying. Or maybe you are just an actual baby child, in that case you aren't supposed to be here without parental supervision.

[@spencerjackson2007]

I start watching one video and next thing I know its an hour or so later and I've watched a handful. I find history so fascinating, especially culinary history, being a cook myself. I wish I grew up in Massachusetts instead of California. So much history in the streets of Boston, Concord and the like, I'm truly envious of the life you get to live! Keep up the amazing work, love the channel!

[@townsends]

+Spencer Jackson Thanks for the great comment. I know what you mean about local history, there is not much that happened right where we are at until the 1820's, a little late for my taste. Hey we make do... Thanks for watching!

[@guccidan2026]

+Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. Please don't ever stop making these videos. I have been on your channel all day!

[@hunter5822]

You should visit, I'm sure if you enjoy history you'd probably really enjoy joining a reenactment or visiting historical sites. I enjoy visiting historical sites every year and all parts of the year. My taste for history comes from my mother and her fascination with ancestry and history of the area. Maybe look into your history and visit sites of historical significance.

[@thomasnichols180]

Gucci Dan I would like to have one of your catalogs

[@robertsroberts1688]

hes in indiana

[@Bauhauskiddo]

Nettle soup is an old-fashioned Swedish meal too, we usually put a halved boiled egg with the yolk side up in the soup once it's done and ready to serve.

[@indiareiss434]

I'll try that with my next time that sounds good

[@deepashtray5605]

Do you have a video demonstrating fire management? It looks like you are balancing between cooking on the coals, the open fire and assuring a readily supply of hot coals. Looks to be worth its own video.

[@townsends]

Deep Ashtray Great suggestion, I'll put it on the list... Thanks for Watching!

[@stamasd8500]

I love nettle soup. It's comfort soup for me, I grew up on it when I was a kid. The backyard of my current property includes a little part of a wooded area, but unfortunately when I moved here I realized that the wood didn't have any nettles. No problem, I bought nettle seeds, sowed them in part of my garden then next year I transplanted the rhizomes in the woods. Now I have nettles in abundance every spring. Plus they deter deer and other pests which is always very nice. In fact, soup is only one of the way you can cook nettles. Any dish where you'd use spinach or other greens, you can use nettles. Do you like creamed spinach? Try creamed nettle, it's surprisingly good. One word on prep. I recommend that you use only the leaves - don't try to chop and use the stalks (unlike the video). The stalks are very fibrous, and even boiled a long time they will still be stringy. Also a caution on which nettles not to use. After they've bloomed, don't try to cook them. True they would be easier to pick as they stop stinging so much but there's a health risk. Tradition says they "promote flow of urine" but when they have flowers, all they promote is kidney stones.

[@justinhicks6816]

good info!

[@heyitsisela6482]

Thanks!

[@knot4man]

Native Americans made cordage of nettle fiber to make nets to catch rabbits, and bowstrings.

[@RedSpiralHandTV]

Sooooooooo happy to see you promoting nettles as food. We collect them when they are larger, also....just strip the leaves off the stems. When they start getting ready to bloom you don't want to eat them...hard on the kidneys at that point. Nettles are a superfood and more nutritionally dense than seagreens, blue green algae and other "popular" superfoods. We also tincture them and collect a lot of extra and dry them to store for making herbal infusions (strong tea) during the wintertime. They are medicinally used for menopause, man-o-pause (haha), allergies, to strengthen bones and tonify the major organs. They are full of minerals and better than any vitamins you can go buy in a bottle (something we never do.) Thanks for bring nettles to a broader audience.

[@brendankeane5725]

I live in Ireland, and made this recipe the same night I viewed this video. Every bit as delicious as described. Wonderful healthy and deeply green green. Go raibh maith agat.

[@Forevertrue]

These historical foods and methods are timeless. Useful to all of us and should be cherished as water in the desert.

[@Countscoup]

How do these video's not have more views and likes? Not only are these video's informative and interesting but the production quality is outstanding!

[@greedy_wolf]

It looks delicious! :) We still make nettle soup occasionally.. but instead of bread usually potatoes and eggs are used, adding sorrel is also very popular. The younger people don't really like it as nettles are thought of as just weeds, but i'm sure every Latvian grandma knows how it's done. One can even find nettle soup in traditional cuisine restaurants.

[@BeverleyW]

Thank you for demonstrating this recipe. I was excited about your mention of Hannah Glasse, as my Mum discovered that we are related to her (my Mum's maiden name was Glasse). Thank you for all your wonderful videos - your channel was recommended to me in a homesteading discussion, but as I'm home schooling, we are working through all your videos gradually, from the oldest and learning so much. From a UK fan ☺️

[@1fanger]

You can also utilize stinging nettles in summer. Just hold the whole stem over a fire so the leaves wilt. That destroys the irritating chemicals in the leaves and tender stem parts. The mature stems also have tough fibers that can be used for cordage.

[@animequeen78]

Yep. That way, the nettles won't bite back when you eat them.

[@tuttuti123]

@@animequeen78 cooking them in boiling water destroys the acid in them. Putting it over the fire is probably used for handling it safely

[@maggimadison9253]

Stinging nettles were also a remedy for asthma and breathing problems ❤️❤️ thank you for posting this

[@bigmack8307]

Thank ya'll for keeping history alive :)

[@BushcraftMood]

foraging and eating nettles...one of my favorites plants !

[@Outoinen]

My grandmother used to make nettle soup, but she added cream to it. Eating nettles is becoming popular here in Finland, because it has so much iron.

[@AltimaNEO]

This video ended... so abruptly

[@RinnzuRosendale]

The camera man was so excited to "go out and pick em" that he couldn't wait.

[@truthseeker5796]

😂 I was like "why did the video suddenly come to an abrupt end"

[@rubenskiii]

Nettles are very important plants, not only to eat but also to see certain chemical values of the land, nettles are great to find fertille land. Maybe a good subject for a video? A lot of things we nowadays research in a lab can be discovered by studying the flora and fauna of a region. Maybe a video about five ways farmers from the 18th century knew when to act.

[@utej.k.bemsel3199]

I use them as a fertilizer, you can brew some nettle tea to use it for your plants, or you can dry the whole plant, shred it and put it on the roots of your plants. And the fresh tea repells aphids and other pests.

[@candiwalkowski7480]

It's a bit different than what I grew up eating - nettles sautéed in butter, boiled, and then with cream added. Paired well with tea! We also soaked in salt water, and then boiled twice bracken fern fiddleheads, and usually picked them around the same time we picked stinging nettle - the sap from the fern alleviated stings. Mountain huckleberry (V. membranaceum) leaves from here in the Northwest make a great tea for an insulin substitute in an emergency, something my grandmother found out from a Tillamook elder who once shared a hospital room with her boyfriend. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Northwest settlers drank it, too. What did they use on the east coast - did they use a similar plant, like bilberry?

[@utej.k.bemsel3199]

Because these are so fantastic plants, i've planted them in my garden!

[@zelder7409]

“You might want to wear gloves when you pick these” *goes in with his bare hand with absolutely no hesitation*

[@gemmag.2988]

Ikr. Ninja!!!

[@corbeau-_-]

emphasis on _you_ ;)

[@pnysher1]

my grandmother used to make this when i was a young lad, along with dandylion salad

[@kcatto21]

wonderful video as always... we are excited now, a new recipe to try and we have lots of nettles on our property.... finally something to use nettles for.... thank you again...

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

I absolutely love your video channel, and subscribed. I'm an outdoor survival instructor, and love primitive cooking. I thought this nettle soup recipe was really nice. I have nettles every year, and I even pick individual leaves off during the summer, as they have a delicious, robust flavor. I save the tough stems to make my own cordage. I have two recipes for nettle soup, and paste. Just enough beef, vegetable, or chicken stock, to cover nettles, very finely chopped onions, green onions, or leeks, salt, pepper and if you like, a pinch of garlic powder. Everything is to your taste, you can add more stock if you like. The beauty of nettles, more than any other green, is that it stands perfectly well on its own without much spicing. Simmer until nettles are tender, then serve..... That's it! very simple. :) To make the paste, reduce soup, or drain nettles, puree, then spread on home made flour/cattail tortillas, or a flatbread. I served this at a church function, and everyone loved it. It was one of the first things that disappeared.

[@townsends]

+Dragunov Bushcraft Thanks for sharing your take on this idea!

[@clairestadtmueller2772]

I am so happy to have found you! I recently purchased a home built in 1750 and 1820, and there is an abandoned garden bad filled with nettles, growing in a floor of poison ivy. I have made nettles pesto (with nutritional yeast instead of parmesan cheese), and I will make your 18th century recipes! Thank you.

[@isabellainnorway]

Made some nettle soup yesterday(live in Norway for now). But, I added a veg. oxo cube, a garlic and a small potatoe( for thickening). Then, I pureed it and tossed some home made croutons made from stale bread on top. Even my 13 year old finicky son ate it!. Just subbed to you, by the by as I just found your channel. Can,t waite to hunker down and enjoy more of your exciting vids. Thanks!

[@cherylgrout]

I have spent my most of my quarantine reading colonial american travelers diaries; but after finding your videos, I've been binge watching and loving it! Oh my goodness! After watching this video, I realized this stuff is in our woods. I went out and collected some and made this soup. Great tasting soup! Only mine didn't look like soup because I probably added too much flour. Thank you for your videos💖

[@jamesfrearson9630]

Probably the most charming cooking apparatus I've ever seen. Well presented video too.

[@superepictoyreviews4kids676]

it is almost midnight and i made it immediately after watching this.

[@Hercules1-v9m]

stinging nettle makes a great, soothing tea for a sore throat

[@djynfxxbdhtbrn6854]

I came here from the pemmican soup video, I'm going to the mushroom ketchup video from here and, no doubt, I'll end up on another video from there. Sleep is less important.

[@carramills8270]

Lol

[@msfarnum1]

I can't wait till next Spring.

[@TheCrimsonking07]

Always plugging that mushroom ketchup, I love it!!!

[@brigidscullion8783]

I love the contents, presentation and the location of this video. Wonderful.

[@Pottan23]

My grandma makes this every spring/summer and bakes stinging nettle pies. So tasty!

[@ArmorDoge]

Awesome. You're the man.

[@Blutteufel]

When I finally go crazy and run off to the wilderness to build a house, I'm totally making a stove like that.

[@Sakitsunebi]

Cool, I'm not the only one who plans to run off and build a house in the wilderness

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Primitive Technology can help with that.

[@Blutteufel]

Johnny Nguyen Yeah, but I think most people would prefer to build a home that _can't_ be smashed apart by a light breeze.

[@kylekafka6636]

His clay houses are pretty sturdy. I too get the occasional urge to run off into the wilderness.

[@Blutteufel]

Kyle Kafka Even if they are, I am going to need something significantly sturdier. Around here, we have more bears, cougars and other nasty critters per capita than people.

[@louis5668]

Townsends has been making such quality content for so long. Absolutely awesome

[@j.niccicoffie3272]

That's a cool rustic kitchen.

[@a_mustache_of_great_repute]

"Add in just a little butter" plops in a fist sized lump of butter

[@davidfiebert2335]

Great video. I always learn something new and useful from you. Keep them coming.

[@DominusEstOK]

So addicted to these videos.

[@sallys1179]

Love your teaching show.

[@theecapitan]

This is so interesting... I have a whole crop of these in my back garden. Been cutting them down but I will happily try this.

[@theBaron0530]

This reminded me of a line from the movie, "Hope and Glory". When his daughter and family relocate to the country to escape the Blitz in London, and they wonder how they'll feed themselves, Grandpa says, "We'll make nettle soup! Very nourishing!"

[@tatianka30006]

This reminds me of the time we used to pick stinging nettles back in Russia for soup. My mom used to make it a little differently: she used to put in bay leaf, salt and peppercorns, potatoes, carrots into water, add and sauted onion, then nettles once the rest of the ingredients are soft and keep boiling for only another minute or two. She used to serve it with a boiled egg and a bit of sour cream and/or mayo in the bowl. Delicious spring soup!!

[@s.leemccauley7302]

So good for you come spring

[@ryangmackeen]

Whoa watching this exactly 10 years after it was posted... I might have to go find some nettles today... Thank you!

[@jessicag630]

1:27 That plant is called as jelatang in the place where I live. The variant here has uroshiol that causes really bad rash that is extremely itchy. It's surprising that it can actually be cooked.

[@laurametheny1008]

Excellent information!😍

[@TomsBackwoods]

Awesome!!

[@Melvorgazh]

Kinda perfect vid! ;) Cheers! And Happy Easter!

[@deannastevens1217]

Looks delicious!

[@caringancoystopitum4224]

Nettles are great plants. They make for a great tea and soup. Used in a paste, it makes for a great ointment for your joints. I guess there are more uses for nettles out there. But these are the things I use them for.

[@alexs.8585]

Nettle soup is still eaten sometimes in England, it's really nice

[@kyuutatsu]

This is so awesome, we have nettles growing wild in the forest out back I'm definitely making this for us

[@jamestaylor2607]

Marvelous, thank you!

[@redredpi]

I make nettle tea as well and drink it through out the day..great energy drink. In the eveining take a mason jar and fill half way with dried nettle or all the way to the top with fresh un cut,pour hot water over it and seal the lid on over night. In the morning and strain the tea and compost the leaves,great vitamins as well.

[@DystopianEmpire01]

I half expected you t crack one of those eggs into the bowl of hot soup. I probably would have.

[@alanaronald244]

+DystopianEmpire01 me too

[@Blueswailer]

+DystopianEmpire01 That would be tasty. I love cracking eggs into soups, sometimes I make a chicken & noodle soup with coconut cream and all kinds of things. Crack multiple eggs, whisk and pour into the soup in thin strands where it solidifies instantly, taking on the spices of the stock. Mm-m.

[@garlicgirl3149]

Me too!!!!!!

[@anonsforever_]

These are the type of videos I want to see more of. Wild edibles were always used in practically every dish back in the days.

[@Whatzedreadid]

I'm addicted to your videos

[@krivak52]

This recipe is amazing. It reminds me of my childhood, because grandma often used nettles instead of a spinach in recipes during early spring. Thank you.

[@missmartpants2269]

Very cool!

[@kaldicuct]

For stinging nettles, I do know that if you wilt it over a fire, it burns the stings off and tenderizes it a bit. But put it in a pan with a bit of butter and stir around, it would become a nice green like what some people use asparagus for.

[@MsJPA79]

In Macedonian cooking it is very commom. It is in soups, stews, burek, ect. It still grows in my mom's backyard. My grandmother (baba) would soak it in cold water to get the stinging laxtex out in the fridge for 8-10 hours changing the water 3 times.

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

+Jenny Katsaris This isn't necessary. As soon as nettles hit boiling water, the sting goes away instantly, and changing the water isn't necessary. It dilutes the flavor. Just sayin' :)

[@Lightspit]

nettle is an excellent treatment food for gout sufferers. A more "modern" day recipe with stinging nettle is to blanch the leaves before cooking them. Take the leaves through a blender or just minced it very fine with the knife and in the meantime slowly cook some minced onion in butter or tallow.or lard. Add the minced stinging nettles and cook slowly for about 5 minutes (basically you want to heat it), add a cup of milk and a few minced garlic cloves and cook for another 10 to 15 minutes till the milk is mixed/combined in the composition. Add some salt and pepper and if you really want you can add some flour to make it thicker. Serve it together with some poached eggs/omelette and if you like it then you can add some cheese shredding on top. The version for religious fasting is just minced stinging nettles, onion and garlic. No flour, milk or eggs. It is still OK. The receipt is from my grandmother who also learned it from her mother (19th century :)).

[@serdalkaptan]

Excellent presenttion, amazing kitchen, awesome recipe. Thank you my friend. Regards from uptown Canada.

[@rythymroach]

Definitely will try this spring! Already knew stinging nettle as survival food but this looks tastier! :)

[@fortbumper]

what a good video again! very tasty food at the price we all can take any time.We love the kitchen the tools in it the cheerful cook and no one never smile too much.Please keep making those encouraging videos.We are looking to buy good knives from you.Thank you.

[@nativegerry335]

Nettles are in season now..I'm foraging a whole lot and using them in pesto sauce soups marinades and vinegrettes. The whole foraging for the first time gives me a sense of familiarity more like a past life regression. Maybe in colonial America I foraged nettles and sold them in the markets

[@SomePotato]

Nettles make great tea as well! If they are bigger and older, just use the leaves and discard the stems.

[@TheAstralthief]

I love it. Simple and beautifully done. 🔥Thank you. ✌🏽💚

[@beeman2075]

I'm watching this with a warmed glass of milk in hand, towards midnight and experiencing insomnia. There is something very comforting about the delivery and content of each of your cooking videos.

[@haleywilson520]

I found this video on the exact date, eight years later! That's amazing

[@jessicabrady6327]

So glad I found your channel! I love all the recipes and your knowledge. It may seem silly, but I like learning about this kind of stuff, what if we all need to go off the grid and live off the land? Its good to know what to do in case you ever need to.

[@townsends]

I am so glad you found us, thank you for the kind comment and sharing your concerns.

[@svetathompson9347]

Thank you for this recipe.

[@andrewjansen9702]

This used to be popular in England when prince john was taxing his people to death while tichard was fighting in the last crusade. It was commonly eaten by the poor.

[@carolinejayes157]

Delicious ,and easy recipe.!

[@MrJoeakd]

Wow. A Leftie. No wonder you are so good at what you do.

[@michaelpreston233]

Thanks J, all this time I've been weeding those things from my garden, now I'll cook them.

[@townsends]

michael preston We're discovering that there are so many other "weeds" just like these. We plan to do a series, probably next year, on wild edibles.

[@johnlambert8929]

Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. sounds very interesting Jas!!!!!!!!!

[@MegaWetwilly]

if you can find copies online, euell gibbons did 2 articiles for national geographic on living off wild foods, well worth the look if you can find them, from i think the 1972/74 years.

[@kraken138]

Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. I highly suggest you look into Arthur Haines who wrote two recent books called--Ancestral Plants. He also has many fantastic youtube clips, as well. He knows all about the various uses of wild plants and wild edibles.

[@otakop67]

Videos like this make me so glad I subscribed to your channel.

[@mustangunique3214]

Amazing. This video inspired me to use my growing nettles in the garden, instead of using them for compost and teas for the plants, i will use them for a dish! Thanks ;)

[@chiojam]

You can turn them into a 'spinach' too. My parents used to get some stinging nettles, cook it and mash it with potatoes. Taste very similar as spinach and potatoes mash.

[@WillowsGarden]

Very interesting, will look in my yard, :)

[@JackHaveman52]

Growing up on a farm in southern Ontario in the sixties, it seemed that there were growths of stinging nettles behind all the out sheds and chicken coups. Every farm seemed to have them. I've gotten into them lots of time and didn't like it. We had them in the woods, too, but they were a different variety and didn't grow as tall. Eventually, I found out that the ones growing around the buildings were imported from Europe and that peaked my interest. Why would they import something that seemed to be good for nothing except to sting you? It seemed to bring our history closer, when I finally found out. The farm I grew up on had so many things growing on it. A small apple orchard, pear trees, a plum orchard, currant bushes, raspberries and gooseberries, rhubarb....we were always picking them and my mom canned all summer. We never used the nettles, though, simply because we had no idea that they could be useful. At least it explained why every farm in the area had clusters of them growing around the place.

[@Steve17010]

Will you be doing any recipes with dandelions? I remember that young dandelion leaves are edible if prepared correctly.

[@Ardoxsho]

Dandelion is completely edible, young or old - unlike other wild greens, which may become overloaded in minerals (e.g. nettles, sorrel), or even toxins (with black bryony, for example, you can only eat the tender sprouts, and then only after boiling and discarding the water 3-4 times). But with dandelion, which is actually good for your liver, there is no such problem. Feel free to use the older leaves, simply stir-fried with garlic and a scrambled egg. Or if you eat bacon, then stir-fry it with your well-washed dandelion: they'll cook with just the water that has stuck to the leaves while washing. The young leaves can be eaten raw: just add them to your salad. The flowers are also fully edible, and can be preserved in syrup. The buds can be preserved in brine and eaten like capers.

[@puggirl415]

Dang! He's just chopping those nettles raw! Ow ow ow ow ow. I usually pick them up with gloves and blanch them in boiling salted water. Parboiling them for 30 seconds wilts them and deactivates the stinging part of the stinging nettle. Salt water makes the nettles stay really green.

[@Marialla.]

I made sauteed nettles and nettle soup before with older plants, just using the tips and some of the leaves. I used tongs and rubber gloves to help collect them, because I HATE nettle stings! But they cooked up nicely. A bit tougher than spinach, but a very acceptable alternative. They make an excellent tonic, full of vitamins and minerals.

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

+Marialla Nettles are a super food. I collect nettles with no gloves, I found the sting, after you get used to it, actually improves the circulation of the hands, and eases arthritic pain for a few days.

[@christophersheffield9574]

You damn people with your "super food" nonsense.

[@alanaronald244]

love your kitchen

[@corsa701]

That recipe sounds good. I will try it soon :)

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

When I went to Germany with my dad to visit family when I was 6 years old. I had my first had experience with the stinging nettle there. Of coarse those nettles was almost as tall as me or a little shorter at that age. I think I remember my dad telling me different stories and things they did with the stinging nettles when he was a young boy in Germany.

[@jeepman1961]

My encounters with nettles would NEVER have led me to eating them!! LOL.. But now I'm intrigued!!

[@Procket12]

This stuff showed up here in on our farm in Sacramento County from a batch of hay. 10 years later its still sticks around, resistant to round up.

[@janecollette9504]

A wonderful recipe. I love your show.