THE WILDWOOD WEED
The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought
One day I was out there talking to my brother,
Reached down for a weed to chew on,
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry,
And then everything was gone!
Didn’t know what happened,
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin’ burlap.
I come to and my brother was there,
And he said, What’s wrong with your eyes?
I said, I don’t know, I was chewing on a weed.
He said, Let me give it a try.
We spent the rest of that day and most of that night,
Trying to find my brother, Bill.
Caught up with him, ‘bout six o’clock the next morning,
Naked, swinging on the wind mill!
He said he flew up there.
I had to fly up there and bring him down,
He was about half crazy
The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds,
And put ‘em in the sun to dry.
Then we mashed ‘em up and chopped ‘em up,
And put ‘em in the corncob pipe.
Smokin’ that wildwood flower got to be a habit,
We didn’t see no harm.
We thought it was kind of handy,
Take a trip and never leave the farm!
All good things gotta come to an end,
And it’s the same with the wildwood weed.
One day this feller from Washington came by,
And he spied it and turned white as a sheet.
Then they dug and they burned,
And they burned and they dug,
And they killed all our cute little weeds.
Then they drove away,
We just smiled and waved
Sittin’ there on that sack of seeds!
Y’all come back now, hear?
An abundance of carrots? Here's an interesting carrot beverage from the Carrot Museum. Made
on Sundays, crowned king of Jamaican dinner juices. Method to obtain carrot juice sans a juicer.
CARROT JUICE Blender to pulp tiny 1/8" pieces ¾ ways full w/ ½ cup water. Hold pulp in large bowl. Add cup water; w/ clean hand, squeeze pulp into strainer. Hold pulp on plate. Repeat to squeeze rest. Add water to squeezed pulp in bowl. Squeeze; then Sieve into 2nd container.
CARROT DRINK Mix carrot juice w/ 14 oz can cond/milk, 1/4 lb sugar to taste. Add 2 tb ea nutmeg, vanilla. Can add more water or more flavoring.
NOTE For imbibers, A capful of white rum enhances flavour.
WHICH CARROTS? Almost any large variety can be used---Neptune is an excellent long season 'Flakee' type carrot with large conical roots up to 12in/30cm long, with an intense orange colour and are particularly sweet for their type. Juwarot is the carrot with the highest beta carotene content. Or use regular shop varieties, Imperator, Nantes, Chantenay, Danvers and Nairobi.
