Re: My love affair with clover :)

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lovely story.

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 9:28 AM

Subject: My love affair with clover

 

As a little girl, we would lay in the grass of our school fields on balmy summer

days, watching the bees and bugs and pulling grass shoots. We made daisy chains

and waved buttercups under each others' chins to see if we liked butter. We

sucked the droplets of nectar out of the flowers of false nettles and clover. We

probably tasted most of what grew on the school field.

Many years later, and this lunchtime I was preparing a cheese and clover

sandwich for my little girl, whilst munching on the sweet crunchy shoots. Since

I started sprouting not so very long ago, clover is the one I keep coming back

to. I get a little wave of disappointment if I open the fridge and find no

clover (my fridge is always full of sprouts these days!). To many, the 'staple

sprouts' of alfalfa and clover are dull and tasteless although they have a

wonderful 'crunchy' texture. I've sprouted clover in home-made mixes, revved up

with red radish, mustard, and fenugreek, but somehow I like it best all on its'

own. It is so hard to describe in flavour, but to me its far from bland. When I

bite it, it reminds me of summer meadows and milk cows, and it's such a familiar

taste.

Today as I stole a piece of sandwich from my daughters plate, I realised why I

know that flavour so well. I was carried back to those days where we gently

pulled each flower from a head of clover, and nibbled the end off the flower to

get to the miniscule droplets of nectar.

To me, clover tastes every bit like those delicate pink clover flowers we

nibbled. And I LOVE it!

Charlotte