It was time.
Last May, we made our very first batch of dandelion wine. Up until then, the only fermenting I’d ever done was accidental, a result of leaving fruit juice, or black beans, or cooked barley sitting in the refrigerator too long. As this was our first attempt at deliberate fermentation, we followed the recipe [...]

We’ve been had.
We’re in the process of making dandelion wine, using Euell Gibbons’ recipe. It’s a simple procedure:
1.  Pour one gallon of boiling water over one gallon of dandelion flowers. Steep for three days.
2.  Strain out the flowers, and add a small piece of chopped ginger, the zest and juice of three oranges and a [...]

Flowers are good. Wine is good. In between, though, it gets downright disgusting.
We’ve been waiting for dandelion season ever since our friends Dan and Linda first brought us a bottle of their dandelion wine. We were fully prepared to take a sip, smile politely, and tell them how good it was. And we did tell [...]