{"id":11254,"date":"2017-05-25T20:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2021-04-21T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:08:54","slug":"11254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11254","title":{"rendered":"Geirlauk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sand leek (rocambole) or Allium scorodoprasum<\/em> gives bigger yields here than leeks, so it’s not surprising to learn that this perennial onion was probably cultivated by the Vikings (it is found naturalised near many old Viking settlements in Scandinavia) and I believe it is the original “geirlauk” (meaning spear onion) and the root of the word garlic in English… See also pages 215-217 in my book!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I hadn’t noticed the red base to the stems seen in these pictures before…
\nI used it in a quick scrambled egg dish together with Amish onion (Allium x proliferum<\/em>), sorrel flower shoots, ground elder (Aegopodium<\/em>), nettle (Urtica dioica<\/em>), \u00a0Hydrophyllum virginianum<\/em> (water leaf) with golpar spice.
\nThese pictures can also be seen on my 700 plus album of Allium pictures on Facebook here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150966880345860<\/a><\/p>\n

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The scapes of Allium scorodoprasum could certainly be described as spear-like<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"P1730104\" Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) flowering stems<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sand leek (rocambole) or Allium scorodoprasum gives bigger yields here than leeks, so it’s not surprising to learn that this perennial onion was probably cultivated by the Vikings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1355],"tags":[2274,1099,2319,2318,214,2323,275,333,2320,2316,1101,2317,2324,1117,1157,1131,2322,2321],"class_list":["post-11254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onions","category-perennial-vegetables","tag-aegopodium","tag-allium-scorodoprasum","tag-allium-x-proliferum","tag-amish-onion","tag-garlic","tag-geirlauk","tag-golpar","tag-ground-elder","tag-hydrophyllum-virginianum","tag-rocambole","tag-rumex-acetosa","tag-sand-leek","tag-scandinavia","tag-sorrel","tag-stinging-nettle","tag-urtica-dioica","tag-vikings","tag-water-leaf"],"views":4128,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28794,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}