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Skriven 2008-03-30 16:01:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BURTON FORD
Ärende: Re: Cattails 1
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-=> Quoting Burton Ford to Jim Weller <=-

 BF> I'd like to see just one recipe using the brown cattail cylinder
 BF> itself.   I'm curious how one would us it.

You can use the roots as a vegetable and as a flour source. You can
eat the young shoots as a vegetable and you can shake pollen out of
the brown cattails to use as a flour extender. The green spikes
can be cooked like corn on the bob but the mature brown ones aren't
edible except for the pollen you can shake out.

From some old posts:

           Cat tail stalks
 
  Guess what I found today?  Cattails are just sending up their stalks!
  So I collected several to cook tonight like you would corn on the
  cob. I love these.  Will go out again over the weekend and collect
  more for a cattail casserole.  This also means that several of the
  people here that live in the northern regions will have cattails in
  the pollen stage. If you are not collecting the pollen and using it
  in pancakes you are missing a real treat.  My kids would kill me if
  they didn't get their yearly quota of yellow flap-jacks.
  
  From: Melana

      Collecting Cattail Pollen
 
  I collect it by using a gallon size plastic baggie over the head and
  gently bending the plant down and shaking.
  
  I have a tiny stand on my land.. and it's so hard to be patient
  since my favorite way to have cattail is the "young corn" stage when
  the heads are still new and haven't developed to the family fuzzy
  stalks, and to leave some for both the health of the plants and for
  future harvesting of pollen and later the stalks for decorating can
  be will-testing.

  From: Kailariwoifeyes


MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Cree Cattail Flour
 Categories: Native, Wild, Info
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
           Cattail Flour
 
  Cattail Flour: During June the male blossoms, which are located above
  the female cattail bloom spike, produce quantities of bright yellow
  pollen. This nutritious, corn-flavoured food substance in easily
  gathered by wading through cattail marshes and gently bending each
  bloom spike over a deep bowl or bucket and "dusting" the golden
  pollen in (thereby pollinating the plant at the same time). This
  gathering is best accomplished on a still, dry afternoon. Gather as
  much fresh pollen as you can use soon or put by. It is an important
  flour extender and makes a good addition to biscuit, bread, and cake
  batters. It should be added in an equal amount to replace an equal
  portion of flour deleted from a recipe.
  
  Cattail Flour: A great many of the botanicals natural to any area may
  be dehydrated and ground to make flour. The tastiest and most
  nutritious wild flours are those prepared from nutmeats. Seeds of
  various botanicals can be used to make flour as well as cereals,
  gruels, and puddings.
  
  The finest flour in nature, which needs no sifting or refining is
  cattail and bulrush pollen. However, its fine also makes it very hard
  to wet, so it is easier to mix the pollen with a greater portion of
  other flour.

  From: C.A.A.E. Churchill, Manitoba
 
MMMMM


Cheers

YK Jim


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