Queen Anne's Lace
I was searching for the name of
one of my favorite wild edible plant. After seeing it I couldn’t resist my
smile and
pronounced it loudly like an insane. I never heard the name, or the history
behind it but what I know is some of my schooldays memories when we (my friends
and my siblings) use to search for a sweet treasure beneath the green beautiful
meadow lands of Hunza in teams after school. Collecting them and competing for
the maximum number of wild carrots was a hobby for us. Digging land with sharp
edged sticks, that excitement finding the larger size as compare to other team members,
being victorious for collecting the most wild carrots, making bouquets from its
flowers all are good memories of good Juvenile years.
But wait
wait wait!!! I’ve some amazing facts about the wild carrot you might love to
know if you are or were a wild carrot collector like me and my friends.
William turner named it wild carrot in 1548 but the
name that amazed me is,“Queen
Anne’s Lace” isn’t this cool? The thoughts in mind after knowing its
name was does it belong to the royal family of a great country? Or was it a favorite
food of a beautiful queen? Or was she fell in love with the beautiful white umbrella
like flower..?
But here are some fables behind the unique name.
The second daughter of James II of Great Britain, Queen
Anne’s name is behind the mysterious name of wild carrot. The fables
related to the name are;
Once the queen was making a lace and pricked her figure
and the blood from her figure stained the flower.
Another interesting story related to it is, the
queen challenged the ladies of royal family to mage a lace a elegant as the
flower of wild carrot but no one couldn’t compete the creation and hand work of
queen so it became her trade mark.
It is said that the purplish floret in the center
refers to the queen while all the white florets to her collar lace.
Here is another story which says the
name came from virgin Merry’s mother Saint Ann not from the name of Queen Anne.
Hey food lovers it doesn’t bother you
where its name came from so here are some recipes you can try at home ;) You can
use wild carrot in stews and soups and tea. Its flower and leaves can be used
to add flour in different foods or you can eat them raw the way we use to but
you have to clean them before eating.
The recipes are;
This herb is for our digestive system, support liver and helps in removal
of waste from kidney.
Its leaves have been used to stop
kidney stone formation and cystitis and helps in many other ways...
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