Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1917 — HOW TO SERVE POKE STALKS [ARTICLE]

HOW TO SERVE POKE STALKS

You are interested in the high cost of living problem just now. Have you served poke stalks to your family* If you try it once you are certain to repeat the experiment. Cut when a few inches high. Scrape carefully and ’ lay in cold water for an hour. Boil in salted water until tender. Drain and prepare a cream sauce as for new potatoes. The color when ready for the table is a most delicate green and white. Served to guests recently with no explanation, one, with epicurian tastes, said: "This asparagus is certainly unusually flue.” Marion Harland says of them: “They are undeniably whqlesome — also inexpensive.’’ And they are in season now and will be for some time, as many of the old roots haven't manifested themselves as yet. *