Hedge Apples & Products?

[hoodat]

Puff balls are edible when young and solid all the way through but the taste is sort of bland. When I was a kid we called them sneezing powder and used to sneak up and puff them in someones face. It almost always caused a sneezing fit.

 

[GardenGeisha]

Thanks, Carol. I forget-- what time of year do they puff? Is it all year round or a specific time? Fall?

 

[GardenGeisha]

I didn't know they were edible, hoodat! Interesting. Are they tasty?

 

[Carol Dee]

Look for giant puffballs from late summer through mid-fall anywhere in North America.

 

[hoodat]

I didn't know they were edible, hoodat! Interesting. Are they tasty?

They have very little taste of their own but soak up the taste of whatever they are cooked with.

 

[GardenGeisha]

Interesting! Thanks for the info Carol and Hoodat.

My sister can't remember hedge balls! I can't believe it. But she does remember puff balls fondly. How could anyone who grew up in the Midwest NOT remember hedge balls??