Has anyone tried making dock pudding? It's also known as ledger pudding or passion pudding due to the seasonal proximity to Easter. Apparently it is a traditional spring food in Northern England. They even have competitions for the best pudding! it is made from bistort and other spring greens cooked with oatmeal and then fried with a cooked breakfast.
My bistort is starting to get established, so I'm thinking of having a go at making some this year. It spreads moderately fast in damp soil and appears to be thriving with me, so I'm propagating it around (and hoping that I like it!). It's rich in vitamin A and C but also contains oxalic acid ( nutritional info. from pfaf). Bistort is a wild plant of wet meadows, and some of the farmland in Yorkshire has protected meadows where the flowers bloom in drifts in summer.
Wildflower meadow Yorkshire
There appear to be two different methods: this one looks like the easiest - just cooking everything up in a pan, leaving to set, then slicing and frying. The other (two variations here) put everything in a pudding cloth and boil to cook. Then again you slice and fry the pudding.
This picture of my bistort is from a couple of years ago in summer - the flowers are pretty! I'm hoping to get seed set; as it is related to buckwheat, it may make a useful grain crop too.
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