LL-L "Delectables" 2005.09.23 (05) [E]

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2005.09.22 (02) [E]

Hi, Ron,

you wrote:

> While I cannot help you with a source, I can warn you of a health risk.
> Sometimes, people don't bother to separate the berries from twigs and
> leaves
> before pressing, and this is likely to lead to poisoning, since all but
> the
> berries are toxic. "The fresh leaves, flowers, bark, young buds, and roots
> contain a bitter alkaloid and also a glucoside that, under certain
> conditions, can produce hydrocyanic acid. The amount of acid produced is
> usually greatest in young leaves. There may be other toxic constituents in
> this plant. The root is probably the most poisonous and may be responsible
> for occasional pig deaths; cattle and sheep have died after eating leaves
> and young shoots."*

Wow!!
If that really would be true I should have died for several times! Because-
my mother got the young flowers as a whole, dipped them in a batter and
baked/fried them in hot oil till they were crisp ('kross' we say) like
french fries. It really tastes deliciously, and no one ever felt any
indisposition.

Greutens/Regards

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Names

Well, Jonny, maybe this indicates that there is a toxicity difference 
between the two types of elderberry bushes, namely the Eurasian _Sambucus 
niger_ and the American _Sambucus canadiensis_.  The two certainly *look* 
very similar.  This may be an example of the dangers intercontinental 
migrants face(d).

> crisp ('kross' we say)

So do we.

Kumpelmenten,
Reinhard/Ron

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