All About Sassafras with Jim!

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
  • No one knows history and herbs quite like our good friend, Jim! He is also is an expert when it comes to foraging! We were able to capture the in's and out's about Sassafras this weekend at James White's Fort! He tells us what all to look for and exactly what to do for a delicious Sassafras tea! Yum and enjoy!
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Komentáře • 85

  • @cllnplmr
    @cllnplmr Před 7 lety +2

    LOVE this lesson!!

  • @cynthiabrennemann3513
    @cynthiabrennemann3513 Před 7 lety +37

    Here's a tip. Get yourself a nice big root with a big ol knob at one end, and start whittling. Save the chips for the tea, of course, BUT...whittle it into a rough spoon or paddle shape. Then use that spoon/paddle and stir your apple butter/peach butter/pear butter, etc... with your sassafrass spoon. There is nothing quite like butters and preserves made with a good ol sassafrass spoon. :)
    When the spoon starts to get old and loose it's flavor, whittle off the exterior and keep stirring. Eventually of course, you'll just have a good ol wooden spoon which is fine and dandy and you can get yourself another sassafrass root and start again.

    • @natepelham9028
      @natepelham9028 Před 6 lety

      I LOVE this idea

    • @cmjon6380
      @cmjon6380 Před 5 lety

      This spoon suggestion is pretty intriguing

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety +1

      If you're lucky enough to be able to find a sassafras tree Bush growing wild in the woods or a tree they grow pretty tall. Dig up some of the root take that to your home and plant it in the ground in your backyard and it will grow you a bush that will soon grow into a fluffy tree so that you can pick off all of the leaves that you need to make your homegrown file powder---for Creole gumbo

    • @HOPROPHETA
      @HOPROPHETA Před 3 lety +2

      So grateful to the indigenous americans that worked all that out for our benefit.

  • @ZombieFriedDuck
    @ZombieFriedDuck Před 7 lety +25

    other than the leaf shape. I always use smell as a identifier. if you rub the leaves of a sassafras, your hand smells like lemon. hope this helps others. love me some sassafras tea.

  • @godisluv070
    @godisluv070 Před 7 lety +8

    Love him! He was one of my mama's favorite presenters at the conference (and she's a picky one lol)! Thanks for filming this!! 💗

  • @AngiesPantry58
    @AngiesPantry58 Před 7 lety +7

    When we 1st moved up on the hill in Lowell back when I was in going into 1st grade We moved into a tent on 40 aches. My Dad & Mom & us 3 kids. Anyways listening to this man talk of Sassafras is the way my Dad did to us kids as my mom making tea of the root over the fire... Thank you for sharing... Big hugs...

    • @HOPROPHETA
      @HOPROPHETA Před 3 lety

      I heard sassafras can cause cancer.
      How often is the tea recommended for?

    • @AngiesPantry58
      @AngiesPantry58 Před 3 lety

      @@HOPROPHETA Now a days they come up with every thing causes cancer.

  • @pattybandy288
    @pattybandy288 Před 3 lety +2

    Brings back beautiful childhood memories of my parents gathering Sassafras roots to make tea. It was delicious!

  • @piahess9738
    @piahess9738 Před 6 lety +2

    Very interesting thanks for interviewing him talking about Sassafras,and how to make the tea.I have had the tea,and the candy.It is an acquired taste.I like it.Take care you all.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡...........

  • @OZARKCOTTONTOP
    @OZARKCOTTONTOP Před 7 lety +4

    My grandpa was born in 1910 ... Back in the 70's my brownie troop went to his homestead for him to show them how to make sassafras tea

  • @lauriechrist1333
    @lauriechrist1333 Před 7 lety +2

    My brother, sister n law and myself, we do reenactments here in Michigan. We love it. I enjoy watching your video's on this. Thank you

  • @1wolfpup
    @1wolfpup Před 7 lety +2

    Really well done! We learned a lot from this video. We just found a sassafras tree on our land and now we know what to look for. Ours was dead so no leaves left. Thanks so much. Love these videos.

  • @nevermore4971
    @nevermore4971 Před 7 lety +4

    So funny you posted this video today. My dad passed away 4 months ago on February 27th. His favorite tea was sassafras. We used to go hiking in the woods to find it. I miss him a lot.

    • @NothingToNoOneInParticular
      @NothingToNoOneInParticular Před 7 lety +3

      Sorry about your Dad. I miss my family too. Isn't funny how things can remind you of people? When I miss someone specifically in my I use different things that remind me of them. I spritz old spice on a tissue and leave it in the house when I miss my Dad. I use Oil of Olay shower soap when I miss my Mom. I use Tone soap when I miss the youngest of my older brothers. I use Safeguard soap when I miss the older brother. Lol I have a ton of soaps, teas, perfumes/colognes or foods for when I miss my family. Lol

    • @nevermore4971
      @nevermore4971 Před 7 lety +3

      Thank you! I am sorry about your family too. Yes it's funny how our loved ones find a way to show us they're still with us. My sister in law passed in May of 2016. She was only 45 and it was so devastating to us all. Her favorite color was purple and a month after she died I took my dogs for a walk down by our pond and there were these little purple flowers everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE! I have lived at our little place for 23 years and have never ever seen these flowers before! I don't know what kind they were, and they haven't returned this year.

  • @naplescajun
    @naplescajun Před 7 lety +1

    Could listen to Jim for hours!!! Thank you for sharing!

  • @biggyiggy3311
    @biggyiggy3311 Před 6 lety +6

    No more medicinal use? What about a sweat inducer? Pretty important and notable quality.

  • @suzisaintjames
    @suzisaintjames Před 7 lety +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤ Loved this video! Encore! Encore! Learning what they knew back in the day is what it is all about. I would love to hear about each of the other bottles that he had on the table. Especially the ones that have medicinal value. I loved hearing about all the other aspects of living back then from the other experts, but I especially wanted to hear the "talk" from the chicken lady with the pretty white silky on her table. Thanks for all your sharing.xoxo

  • @karlar8648
    @karlar8648 Před 7 lety +2

    She went "Purple Rain" on me. I miss Prince. sigh. I had some of this tea when I was a young teen. We gathered the tree bits from our backyard and enjoyed. Freezes well also.

  • @suzisaintjames
    @suzisaintjames Před 7 lety +1

    From canning we all know about a rolling boil. But who knew that before the boil was the roll? Well I knew the water was moving like that. But who knew it had a name... The Roll! Now we know... Too cool! Love ❤ Jim too. Xoxo

  • @beckyjo1956
    @beckyjo1956 Před 7 lety +1

    I love love love sassafras tea! Where I lived in Ohio, we has a family that own a family ran factory that made and shipped sassafras tea all over America and other countries, I believe they are in business.. I left there in 2000. Very interesting..

  • @ladycat661
    @ladycat661 Před 7 lety +2

    Loved this THANK YOU Patara,Miss my Grand paw He would go out in the woods and come back and make us sassafras tea. Not had none in years .now I want some LOL

  • @sylviavega-ortiz3006
    @sylviavega-ortiz3006 Před 7 lety +1

    Fascinating! Thanks for this tutorial.

  • @maryamjanahi333
    @maryamjanahi333 Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you so much !

  • @debbie2663
    @debbie2663 Před 7 lety +1

    Great info. I always wanted to know how to do that. Thank you!

  • @lydialemaster6851
    @lydialemaster6851 Před 4 měsíci

    I love you so much patara!!!

  • @peggydavis2238
    @peggydavis2238 Před 7 lety +7

    When we walked the backroads as kids we would break off a sassafras twig to clean our teeth with, as well as freshen the breath.

  • @eirika2001
    @eirika2001 Před 7 lety +1

    Awesome info - thanks.

  • @Tsiri09
    @Tsiri09 Před 7 lety +3

    I gotta get more sassafras for me. I haven't had it in a long time, and I miss it.

  • @Duncan1900Homestead
    @Duncan1900Homestead Před 7 lety +1

    I love sassafras tea.

  • @JanetWilham
    @JanetWilham Před 7 lety +6

    1st time I found some of this in the hills of west virginia and took to my grandma to see what it was wellllllllllllllll you,d thought I found gold in them there hills!! wow she hollered==GIRL where did you get this!!??-told her and she had me get some more which btw had to step of a few rattlers on the way-lol and she fixed me my first cup of tea out of it and thats all she wrote, from then on I was hooked. ty for video and God bless!

  • @suzyhomesteader2454
    @suzyhomesteader2454 Před 7 lety +4

    oh yummm! My Mawmaw and Pawpaw made me sassafras tea. They also made fresh sassafras candy. I loved it. I can't get sassafras root, or tea where I am now. I miss it.

  • @normamccomas9272
    @normamccomas9272 Před 7 lety +2

    love sassafras!! never knew about the leaves

  • @JanetWilham
    @JanetWilham Před 7 lety +3

    they sell a store brand too-called=Papa,s sassafrass tea I found in Krogers.

  • @rustyanderson4416
    @rustyanderson4416 Před 7 lety +5

    We use the lead es to make filé powder

  • @HWhit9000
    @HWhit9000 Před 7 lety +3

    I have so much sassafras I don't know what to do with it all. I collect the leaves to dry for grinding into File' Powder along with digging the roots for making tea.

  • @gracielee4561
    @gracielee4561 Před 7 lety +2

    YUMMY!!

  • @grandmadee5987
    @grandmadee5987 Před 7 lety +1

    Very educational

  • @susannielsen8688
    @susannielsen8688 Před 7 lety +1

    Fascinating! Now we need the "secret" recipe for root beer!

  • @scratchmadehomestead9343
    @scratchmadehomestead9343 Před 7 lety +3

    Very informative!

  • @ladyduce00
    @ladyduce00 Před 7 lety +3

    would like to taste Sassafras, have always heard about it but never tasted it. Thanks for the info

  • @janaprocella8268
    @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety +1

    A chemist told me that there is a slight element of arsenic in sassafras root.

  • @marbarnes7063
    @marbarnes7063 Před 7 lety +1

    Are you harvesting it now? In June? We always harvest it in the winter when all the sap is down. Does it make a difference?

  • @danfowler2240
    @danfowler2240 Před 5 lety +1

    Eating root beer and sassafras candies rn

  • @sweetheartsmom
    @sweetheartsmom Před 7 lety +2

    Lol love sassafrass

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth Před 4 lety +1

    This guy should have his own You Tube page

  • @mistiking3555
    @mistiking3555 Před 7 lety +3

    watching this eating Sassafras candy. love sassafras.

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety

      Probably artificially flavored

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety

      Be sure to check with the chemist and also a warning for overdosing on this root is an important warning./

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety

      I am a Cajun I know what I'm talking about

    • @janaprocella8268
      @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety

      For people wanting to make homemade root beer there is an artificial bottle of extract located in better grocery stores

  • @eirika2001
    @eirika2001 Před 7 lety +2

    Patara - would you consider trying to make real root beer? I would love to see it done, have never had the ingredients to try :-)

  • @AndreaDingbatt
    @AndreaDingbatt Před 2 lety

    This has me sighing!!
    Stuck in the UK and no Sassafras plants!!🥺🥺🥺🥺
    Thank you for sharing this,I can almost smell Root Beer 🍺!!

    • @phattyphatchris
      @phattyphatchris Před rokem

      I picked one up of the side of the road today going back for the other two tomorrow 😊

  • @bond1j89
    @bond1j89 Před 6 lety +2

    Its not purple its red, and do not boil it. And its not bark it is cambium it is between the bark and the wood.

  • @Rebekahdavignon
    @Rebekahdavignon Před 7 lety +2

    Actually it was the first export from the New World. It was also thought to cure syphilis.

  • @janaprocella8268
    @janaprocella8268 Před 3 lety +1

    The flavor is called the sap

  • @7cgilly740
    @7cgilly740 Před 6 lety

    Oh KAY!!

  • @farmergirlofchickens8779
    @farmergirlofchickens8779 Před 7 lety +2

    the mitten shaped leaf is the easy one to spot the single and triple look like other trees please don't mistake a poplar tree and make poplar tea uggghh... i imagine

  • @user-yq6ko5hc4b
    @user-yq6ko5hc4b Před 5 lety +1

    Где купить саженец Сассафраса ??? Подскажите

  • @connieharbin3286
    @connieharbin3286 Před 7 lety +1

    I've always heard that for the best flavor you need to dig the root in the fall when the leaves start falling. Anyone know if that's true?

  • @JimNelson-po9zn
    @JimNelson-po9zn Před 6 dny

    Looking for plants

  • @iamchuckie
    @iamchuckie Před 3 lety

    How to produce sassafras hoil?

  • @lisanorwood946
    @lisanorwood946 Před 7 lety +1

    prob one of the only things i dont like.. but loved the info

  • @toddprifogle7381
    @toddprifogle7381 Před 4 lety

    I think I need me a cup or two right about now.
    I think you are needing a couples cups or so right at about the time you are interrogating this fellow.

  • @chrisxavier3147
    @chrisxavier3147 Před 5 lety

    There’s lots that you can do with sass....... ;)

  • @user-yt4up2zv2k
    @user-yt4up2zv2k Před 2 lety

    💔💔💔💔

  • @shehood4074
    @shehood4074 Před 2 lety

    What!? No medicinal purposes!? Dude be for real!!