Poke sallet combination can provide a meal fit for a king

Poke sallet combination can provide a meal fit for a king

By Judith Victoria Hensley Plain Thoughts Sit me down to a meal of ramps or green onions, corn bread, pinto beans, bacon, and fried poke sallet and I will be a happy woman dining on a meal fit for a king. My grandfather, Wick Hamlin, used to refer to such combinations of food as a “Duke’s mixture.” I haven’t had fried hickory chickens in years. I haven’t had wild rampion in years, but I know where some poke sallet plants have shot up near my hou…