Fiddlehead
Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds from a fledgling fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond . As fiddleheads are harvested early in the season, before the frond has opened and reached its full height, they are cut fairly close to the ground. Fiddleheads from brackens contain a compound associated with bracken toxicity, and thiaminase.
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Recipes
How to Cook Fiddlehead Ferns - Edible Communities
Coiled and bright green, nothing signals the arrival for spring more vibrantly than the arrival of tangled bundles of fiddlehead ferns at the farmers’ market. You can only find them during a brief window at this time of year, so it’s best to have a plan...