Burnet

Salad burnet is an herb that tastes like cucumbers. It is easy to grow and a great plant for the garden. Here are some growing tips, uses, and recipes.

Tasty in salads, great cucumber-like flavor. Salad Burnet Herb makes a charming perennial plant that was widely grown formerly. Charming woodland plant!

Other Common Names: Greater burnet, garden burnet, official burnet, burnet bloodwort, common burnet, salad burnet, sanguisorba, Grosser Wiesenknopf (German), pimprenelle officinale (French), pimpinela mayor (Spanish), blóðkollur (Icelandic), blodtopp (Swedish).

Salad burnet plant is a Mediterranean native with hardy tolerance. Salad burnet is easy to grow and makes a useful addition to the herb garden. Find out how to grow this herb in the following article.

Sanguisorba minor, the salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet, is a plant in the family Rosaceae that is native to western, central and southern Europe

I recently dug and divided the salad burnet in my herb garden and a thought occurred to me — why didn’t more people use this ancient herb? With its clean, crisp cucumber flavor, salad burnet is surprising to those who try it for the first time, and appreciated the more it’s used in the kitchen. Introduced to Elizabethan England in the 16th century as an ornamental herb, the leaves were floated as a garnish in goblets of wine. Eventually they found favor in European cuisine (where they’re often bundled together with other herbs at the markets these days), the name alone telling you what they’re most used for. But salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) isn’t just for sprinkling on salads. It can be folded into cream cheese or compound butter to brighten little tea sandwiches, or infused into a bottle of vinegar to make a zesty salad dressing. It can turn into a fresh, tangy puree for topping steamed fish and swirling into light soups. And personally, my favorite is using it as a garnish for gin and tonics, iced teas, lemonades, and what I call “spa water” — cold, refreshing glasses of cucumber- and lemon-scented water. Like many Mediterranean herbs, …

Botanical, folk-lore and herbal information - Burnet, Great.

Botanical, folk-lore and herbal information - Burnet, Lesser.

Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is an easy to grow pot herb with attractive foliage and a taste similar to cucumber. This herb was often used in salads and as a medicinal herb up until the 19th century.

Salad Burnet is a beautifully unique culinary herb that tastes like cucumbers! Buy farm-fresh plants online!

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Natutal medicine can heal your body and mind. Medicinal herbs: Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor)

Herbs have made our lives easier in so many different ways. Burnet is one such herb. Burnet can be defined as an herbaceous plant with round green flowers

Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor/ Poterium sanguisorba Perennial Description Salad burnet forms a loose open mound of very finely cut foliage that is almost fe...

Edible foliage has a mild cucumber flavor, and combines well with any dish that calls for cucumber. Oval-toothed leaflets and deep crimson flowerheads.