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Swamp Cabbage

keebo

Well-known member
cook it down like Whitebear said and Put some softshell turtle in there. Now thats Good,
I ve also had it on the grill stuffed with steak and fixins like a wrap.
 

gizzardgitter

Well-known member
Well as long as your not cuttin them at the
courthouse square. or in the parking lot
at a hotel. it's not against the law.
don't forget to put about 3 peeled taters
in it. leave them alone while stirring.
they will draw all the bitter out.
DON'T eat them. or when you pull your britches
down before you can squat. it will look like
where a truck has spun mud all over the
bushes behind ya.
Good Eatin
 

K-mac

Well-known member
Of course you have to have the landowners permission
before you take anything, including cabbage trees.
I've eat it many ways, and most were good, but
Mama used to pickle it with a sweet pickle resipe
and I remember she would put grape leaves in the
bottem of the canning jar ( she said it made them
crispier)They sure were good.
 

Young Gun

Member
Illegal to cut cabbage?!?!?! I'd like to see them find a way to get me to stop what's the world coming to they might as well change Floridas name to newyork or some crap we need more true floridians in goverment postions
 

flatwoods cracker

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They don't want any true Floridians in office, these wishy washy politicians cant handle honesty, they like everything sugarcoated and politically correct, and I aint met a true cracker yet who don't shoot from the hip and tell it like it is. As for swamp cabbage I don't know if it's illegal or not and don't really care. They have so many restrictions on what we can catch, kill, posess, and keep. I'll keep on with my cracker traditions and the rest of the world can pass me by.
 

scorbin

Well-known member
Well, if it's illegal to kill'em, I'm in deep do-do!
Shortly after moving out to the boonies, I must have removed 100 of them from my front yard. Hauled them all to the dump in Cocoa.
This was after calling every gov't entity asking if they wanted them (for free) and running an ad in the paper offering them (for free).
 

cflacowboy001

Well-known member
K-mac said:
Of course you have to have the landowners permission
before you take anything, including cabbage trees.
I've eat it many ways, and most were good, but
Mama used to pickle it with a sweet pickle resipe
and I remember she would put grape leaves in the
bottem of the canning jar ( she said it made them
crispier)They sure were good.

would like to see that recipe?!
 

540 mountain motor

Well-known member
We don't have swamp cabbage in Texas. Probably a good thing since I think cabbage is pretty rough tasting. Have seen something like cabbage growing around black tank near RV. :mrgreen:
 

SwampMatt

Well-known member
540 mountain motor said:
We don't have swamp cabbage in Texas. Probably a good thing since I think cabbage is pretty rough tasting.

According to this map, you do have them in texas. But I suspect this map is a little too generous! Still, Sabal Palms are quite cold tolerant.
300px-Sabalminormap2.PNG

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_minor )
Swamp Cabbage is also called "heart of palm" and is not really cabbage, it just looks sorta like it when all cooked up. Another name for it is "millionaire salad" if you feel like doing some web search for it. So named because where it's available in a restaurant, it's expensive.

sidenote... What's up with Cracker0320???? His name is black/linkless like he's not a member here anymore. Did he get canned or what?
 

Duane Scarborough

Well-known member
moodfood,

I had no idea that palm hearts and swamp cabbage were the same thing. I love palm hearts. I've been a southern connoisseur and didn't even know it. :shock:

Duane
 

Cracker

Well-known member
moodfood said:
540 mountain motor said:
We don't have swamp cabbage in Texas. Probably a good thing since I think cabbage is pretty rough tasting.

According to this map, you do have them in texas. But I suspect this map is a little too generous! Still, Sabal Palms are quite cold tolerant.
300px-Sabalminormap2.PNG

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_minor )
Swamp Cabbage is also called "heart of palm" and is not really cabbage, it just looks sorta like it when all cooked up. Another name for it is "millionaire salad" if you feel like doing some web search for it. So named because where it's available in a restaurant, it's expensive.

sidenote... What's up with Cracker0320???? His name is black/linkless like he's not a member here anymore. Did he get canned or what?

I'm still here just changed my id to my real name !

Cracker said that ,,,,,
 

ltz400sv

Well-known member
Its only illegal on state property you can cut it on privet property i cut 30 every weekend and sell them to restarunts an indavidauls an do it all with a ax in 2 hours but salt fat back and peppers the only way to eat it that other crap ruins it
 

SwampMatt

Well-known member
Cracker said:
moodfood said:
sidenote... What's up with Cracker0320???? His name is black/linkless like he's not a member here anymore. Did he get canned or what?
I'm still here just changed my id to my real name !

Cracker said that ,,,,,

Glad to hear it. :)
And those photos are making my mouth water.

Hey, question... :?: :?: :?:
I've always heard that after the tree gets to over 15' or so, the heart is no good for eating. I assume too rough or bitter or something. Yet, on my property not too long ago, I cut down 6 mature 50' tall palms, and my neighbor got all upset that I didn't save the hearts. So, are they any good on the tall trees or not?
 

ltz400sv

Well-known member
there not that good to me when they get that tall a few tips to cuttin cabbage if the boots have a real wide v the heart will be pretty big cut them on a full moon and they taste better and the heart is bigger i usally dont cut them if there any taller than 10 to 12 feet tall
 
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