Sorrel - Suolaheinä

[jtammilehto]

Anyone know where to get it in PK-area?

[Rosamunda]

In May?

Or are you looking for seeds? Try Plantagena.

[jtammilehto]

ok - good idea for the long run - know of where to get it 'ready?' - tks

[EP]

In meadow like fields starting around midsummer.

[jtammilehto]

Some place between Isoroope and Uudenmaankatu? Gotta check

[Rosamunda]

There's a meadow between IsoRoope and Uudenmaankatu ???
I work on Freda and walk between Iso Roope and Uudenmaankatu every day, never noticed a meadow

If you find someone selling the stuff I'd be interested. Years since I made a sorrel omelette (we had it in our garden in France, grew like weeds). I ought to grow some, or look for some at the mökki. Never have though.

[enk]

You can get this onein any of the bigger supermarkets
and the dinky M market in the middle of nowhere in Espoo. If you're looking for already mushed (you want to make soup
out of it or something), then you can buy a jar of it premushed in the "ethnic section" of the bigger stores or any of the
Estonian and Russian stores in town.

-enk

[Rosamunda]

Isn't the one in the picture mangold? I have some in my fridge and I eat it in salad. The sorrel we had in the garden in France had huge green leaves and I don't think I would eat it raw (sort of bitter). A huge bundle of the stuff would melt down to almost nothing when sweated in butter - but it made the most wonderful omelettes. It's a perennial herb (at least I think it was in France) - so I guess growing it from seed might take a couple of years to get a decent crop.

http://dico-cuisine.fr/news/oseille

http://www.plant-biology.com/Rumex-Sorrel.php

Reading this one I think the bitter taste comes from the dry French summers. If watered the taste is more lemony less bitter. Am definitely going to hunt down some seeds and grow it. I also found a link to a non-bolting variety called 'Profusion' but it was only available mail-order from Canada.

[enk]

Not that I know of, at least we call it bloody sorrel in the USA Apparently it's real name in
English is "red-veined dock" (Rumex sanguineus). Mangold is a variety of beet. Viinisuolaheinä
can be eaten as is, even though it has that mouthpuckering taste to it.

Wild sorrel is usually so small that my kids just eat it as they go through patches of it. Sometimes
we collect enough for salads, but rarely do we bother to collect enough to make anything great out of
it (especially since the youngest two will eat most of it on the way home anyways).

If, btw, the original poster was talking about wood sorrel, the forests are blanketed with it every year,
it's called ketunleipä in Finnish and is highly popular with kids (not just mine ). I wish I had
some right now as a matter of fact, since it's used for alleviating sore throats and has Vitamin C in it.

-enk

[sinikala]

Anyone know where to get it in PK-area?

Viinisuolaheinä started appearing here in supermarkets a couple of years ago, it's found in the section of salads / herbs next to ruccola.

Although it tastes quite similar, I'd never have connected it with sorrel, when someone mentions sorrel, I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood_sorrel which lines the floor of many of the forests in the Lake District.


I wouldn't have had a clue that this was sorrel... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrel


As already mentioned, mangold is something different - it's a type of chard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chard

[EP]

That Finnish Wikipedia sorrel with red flowers is the one I call suolaheinä. And the other one is "ketunleipä" (fox´s bread) like enk said.

[enk]

That Finnish Wikipedia sorrel with red flowers is the one I call suolaheinä. And the other one is "ketunleipä" (fox´s bread) like enk said.

The one in the Finnish wiki is the one we call suolaheinä as well. Or actually
they call it miekkaheinä

-enk