Cigarra and hay
- Last week I have a disgraceful high-quality cheese. I don't have the habit of eating cheese, but from time to time I meet some curious cheese I don't tilt the peak. It was a blue cheese made with cow's milk by Beñat Telleria, from the Hatred farmhouse of the Lenkaran district of Mutilva. Very soft and soft on the roof of the mouth, excellent! At his point of sale in the market of Ordizia he explained to me the years it took to refine that cheese, etc., but I forgot to wonder what he uses it.
Earlier I mentioned plants that are good for jumping milks: at least orchard or cardinal (Cynara cardunculus) and yellow cigarrine, saline, homemade or gravel (Galium verum). The latter has its name: to curd, curd or salate the milk it takes gravel… Galium itself also comes from the word gala of the Greek (milk). The ruminant puppy that has been dedicated exclusively to milk has in the stomach called a flap the theme of curdling that milk, what is known as “book” or “librusantxa”. With it or with the plants, the milk that will be the cheese will be cut. Or with chemical flap...
The yellow cigar is the sister of the rough cigar or small lapa (Galium aparine). It seems that it also slips milk, but it also has another very interesting feature. It's a relatively fragile annual weed that spreads on other adjacent plants to grow. To do this, it uses some hooks such as leaves, cracks and some curved hooks throughout the plant. If you touch the plant, it's rough, some people get chills. It loves rich lands composed of organic matter, abundant in vegetable orchards and mushrooms. By means of the hooks, it perfectly adheres to the feet of the trousers of the horticulturist circulating it, and it is usual the ortuero that carries a part of the hard cigar.
In Spanish they call it “hortelano love.” It has many other names, and more than one of them mentions the pain caused by their affection in the tongue. Hence your name as “small flap”? The stoning licks, it licks.
I have also mentioned here the lapa grass (Arctium lappa), which seasonings the fruits of the hook to hang its seeds in the hairs of the animals. By imitating this model, Velcro was invented.
In Euskera, the herb of the lapa is called “veil of love” and not the little one. Who wants us the most, lapa grasses or small laps? Both, many, because they give us their seeds, they add us to extend them. In Ireland the small flap will be more beloved, as its seeds have been used as a substitute for coffee.
The rough cigarra is a good herb to eat. Its vitamin C content is high and has been used to prevent scurvy. Also to clean the interiors. Squeezed or cooked. You can also make vinegar: crush your own braces and put them in a bowl and coat them with cider vinegar. Filter a couple of weeks and ready!
