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Burdock Root Bitters.
A tincture pressed from burdock's long, dark taproot alone: bitter, earthy and faintly sweet underneath, taken in a little water before meals in the old bitters tradition.
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About this product
Before supper, a few bitter drops in a little water, taken the old way. Burdock is the late-summer plant whose small hooked burrs cling to every sock and passing dog, the same burrs that inspired Velcro. Its leaves are enormous and elephant-eared, slightly furred underneath. Below ground it sends down a long, dark taproot, and this tincture is pressed from that root alone.
The taste is bitter and earthy, faintly sweet underneath: unglamorous, slightly muddy, exactly what a root that grows in ditches ought to taste like. Burdock has been eaten and kept in folk tradition across Europe and East Asia for centuries; in Japan it is gobo, cooked as a vegetable. We hand-dig second-year roots before they bolt to seed, when the taproot is at its longest and most bitter, from hedgerows across the Pacific Northwest.
Details
- Burdock root tincture, pressed from the root alone
- Second-year roots, hand-dug before they go to seed
- Gathered from hedgerows across the Pacific Northwest
- Taste: bitter, earthy, faintly sweet
How to use
Thirty drops in a little water before meals, in the old bitters tradition.
A humble ditch-side root, kept close for the hour before you eat.
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