Pestoral

[Horsetail.]

Pestoral

Category: Bakery products

Kitchen: Russian

Ingredients
Self-leavening yeast dough	500 g
Boiled eggs	2 pcs.
Chives	30 g
Boiled pestochny (or asparagus shoots)	200 g

Cooking method

• Making the dough - "target =" _blank "> full recipe here. In our family, yeast baked goods are often made, there is always a piece or more of yeast dough in the refrigerator, so self-leavening dough is in our family's favor.
• We clean young spore-bearing shoots of field horsetail, boil in boiling salted water. This will have to be done only in the spring, in the first half of April.
• Unfortunately, in the spring, we quickly crumbled the collected shoots raw, it did not occur to freeze,
• therefore we used boiled asparagus shoots,
• outwardly very similar to horsetail shoots, and the taste is almost the same, that is, without a pronounced taste, only green, and horsetail shoots almost without chlorophyll.
• Cut into small pieces (you can lightly fry in butter), mix with boiled eggs and chives.
• We cut the dough into small balls, put the filling, shape in any way. We give proofing - we left it for an hour, and bake until tender.
• The men, of course, were not told what the pies were with. Flew away like an onion and an egg!

Note

Horsetail.
Botanical characteristics.
Field horsetail - Equisetum arvense L. is a perennial herb from the horsetail family (Equisetaceae) with a long black-brown rhizome, which provides the plant with growth and vegetative reproduction. Aerial shoots of two types. Spore-bearing shoots grow in early spring. They are erect, up to 25 cm high, unbranched, juicy, white-pink, devoid of chlorophyll, with large bell-shaped sheaths in the stem nodes. At the top of such shoots, sporangia are located, forming an oval-cylindrical spike in aggregate.

These shoots are used for food.

Young spore-bearing shoots, freed from the shells, are used for food in fresh and boiled form, as well as for preparing fillings in pies, casseroles, okroshka, etc.
Young shoots of horsetail - pestles - have long been used in the preparation of various dishes in the Russian North.

The effects of grass and young shoots of horsetail on the body are very different. In medicine they use young green shoots that appear in the place of dying spore-bearing spikelets.
For medicinal purposes, the herb is collected in August-September and used according to the indications and recommendations of doctors.

[Maria]

Wow, I didn't even know that horsetail shoots can be used for food.
I know horsetail as a medicinal herb and love to admire it in nature

Maria, thanks for the science!

[Irina]

Irina, for medicinal purposes, only the grass that appears after the spikelets throw out the spores, the shoots will die off, and green Christmas brooms will grow from the rhizomes.

Yes, we used the grass, we collected it ourselves.

And the herb is not used in cooking.

No, of course, we don't eat it)))) only for medicinal purposes.

It is a pity, the short period for collecting shoots. Maybe good! And then horsetail will soon be included in the "Red Book" ...

Horsetail shoots are the most medicinal. But since the collection period is very short, the grass is mainly harvested, and it is more profitable - it turns out more. And be careful with horsetail - there are poisonous species!

[paramed1]

paramed1, and when is the collection of horsetail herb for medical purposes produced? Not in early spring, but when the grass appears in the place of the fallen off shoots, closer to August.

The local population of the Arkhangelsk region does not grow asparagus in their private plots - it freezes out, and the field horsetail is cultivated.It does not require care, it grows along fences, and very much the whole season is an ornamental plant with minimal care and sufficient watering. Eating from time immemorial.

About toxicity - you are probably talking about this, about the marsh?


Spread: in the territories of the Russian Far East, the Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia, Central Asia, Scandinavia, Atlantic and Central Europe, the Mediterranean, in the Asia Minor and Japan-China regions, in North America.

The aerial part in Tibetan medicine is used as a diuretic, for vascular atherosclerosis, anthelmintic; in folk medicine - as a diuretic for female diseases, polyarthritis, gout.
Plant toxic to cattle, horses and pigs.

But here, as in picking mushrooms, you need to study the topic. Better to grow it yourself.
I will post a photo of my home-grown horsetail later.

[Valkyr]

Valkyr, Maria, for medicinal purposes, horsetail herb is harvested in May-June. Like the bulk of other plants, during budding and flowering, if the grass is harvested

[paramed1]

paramed1, Veronica, and I'm talking about the same - horsetail grass and other species, harvested for medical purposes, not used in cooking.