backwoods menu/Wild tea.

[flandersander]

Wild raspberries, strawberries and saskatoons
Dandelion, fireweed and wild chives
boletus and meadow mushrooms

Hey I live in saskatoon. In fact, my great great grandpa helped name the saskatoon berry. Or so the family story goes.

[cyc79]

no , they were like resberries but you could see through them , they were on a plant that looks sorta like a wild blueberry plant, there was just one cluster of em there iv nevery seen anything like it in books or whyle hiking

Cloudberries maybe?They look very similar to raspberries but turn yellow when ripe.They grow in muskegs & are hard to find as there's not many around.The Dene people call them muskeg berries.

[dilligaf2u2]

Try this!

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/food.htm

Hard tack recipes is in here and how to use it.

Don

[LarryB]

This is a recipe thread, damn canucks... lol... how about a Moose meat recipe... lol
seriously thoug I wanna try some moose meat.

Ya, since sarge47 turned it into one, I guess...

[LarryB]

I don’t want to go alone into those deep dark woods

No fear of that happening OwlGirl, if I'm anywhere near the far North woods! I'll even show you a few easy mushrooms in your hood, that you can eat safely. As you well know, sweet thing, it's ALL about the knowledge, when it comes to being in the bush. Lots of armchair experts waste time tellin' folks like you and me to stay away from mushrooms etc. etc. They'd rather stick to the negative side of life and try to tell you what they don't know for sure, than to hear what you DO know to be true.

People who have walked the walk and danced the dance of real-life woods living, know how to use as many natural food sources as are available in their immediate area, to the best of their advantage. Starving folks NEVER say, Ooouuww, I don't like mushrooms and frogs and stuff. When real starvation hits you, you would VERY likely eat a large bear or moose paddy and love it.

Don't let all the nay sayers get to you sweet missy, you and your partner are doing a swell job of being real up there and life-dancing in the North woods. That includes, your beliefs in eating any wild edible foods from your neck of the woods that you know to be so.

You know, I can't see these armchair experts and repeaters of bs, just walkin' by a whole whack of Chicken in the woods or Angel wings or Morels for that matter, and saying, oh no, I'd rather starve than waste my time on that dirty fungus...

Glad to hear you've tried to stick to the original subject matter as well, Owlgirl. Perhaps many could have learned a few new wild foods had most of these posts been about what I thought was an easy topic.

Oh well, I guess we do need a recipe thread started eh, sarge47? And a nutrition thread could even get a lot of arguments going about wasting our time while stranded in the woods along with another one about what NOT to eat out there to save you some time?

Chow,

[LarryB]

if i am in the woods i will eat mushrooms if any of you posers take the time to educate yourselves about wilderness survival you will learn quickly about five or six mushrooms that are easily identifiable and will help keep you alive food in the stomach will give you energy to keep going. honestly some of you need to get in some dirt time and educate yourselves.

always be prepared..

Here, Here, my Man Wareagle! Well spoken sir buddyman! That makes at least three of us now that aren't afraid to step-up for what is real...
Reality Rules!

[LarryB]

juniper berries, prickly pear cactus fruits, hunnysuckle, leeks

Awesome! Thank You Borelli for bringing this thread back to where it belongs! You're a man with his head screwed on right. I like your wild food choices too.

Peace!

[hermitman]

birch and pine tea.

[plantdude65]

dude, i like to roast me up some wild onions! thats the best stuff when your feelin hungry. down here in the south we got tons of those growin back by the creek, and they are strong, oderwise.

[plantdude65]

also i like to munch on violet wood sorrel.

[Rick]

I ran across these recipes and had never heard them. Something else I'll have to try.

Blackberry Tea

Pick the blackberry leaves and dry them.
When you want to make tea, just crumble a couple of teaspoons of leaves
to one cup of boiling water.
Steep for five to ten minutes, and you have blackberry tea.

PINE-APPLE BEER

1 pineapple
Water
Sugar

Wash and then pare a pine-apple; if a good size, put the rind into about two quarts of water (in the quantity you must be guided by the size of the pine-apple); cover it for twenty-four hours; then sweeten to your taste, bottle, cork, and put it into the sun for five or six hours, cool it and it is then fit for use.
From The Carolina Housewife by Sarah Rutledge, 1847

SPRUCE AND BONESET BEER

1/2 c. hops
1/2 c. boneset
Water
1 tbs. essence of spruce
Sugar, molasses or other sweetener

Boil a small handful each of hops and boneset for an hour or two, in a pailful of water; strain it, and dilute it with cold water till it is of the right strength. Add a small table-spoonful of essence of spruce*, sweeten, ferment and bottle it.
The essences of hops, checkerberry, ginger, and spruce, put into warm water in suitable proportions, then sweetened, fermented and bottled, make good beer.
From The Young Housekeeper's Friend by Mrs. [M. H. ] Cornelius, 1863.

*Essence of Spruce is made by taking the tender new-growth tips off branches of either spruce or balsam fir trees and soaking them in water or molasses until the flavor is absorbed into the liquid. Strain and save the liquid for use in recipes such as these.

MAPLE BEER

4 gallons water, boiled
1 qt. maple syrup
1 tbs. essence of spruce
1 pint homemade yeast, or 2 packets or cakes commercial yeast

To four gallons of boiling water, add one quart of maple syrup and a small table-spoonful of essence of spruce. When it is about milk warm, add a pint of yeast; and when fermented, bottle it. In three days it is fit for use.
From The Young Housekeeper's Friend by Mrs. [M. H. ] Cornelius, 1863.

[Tony uk]

O.o I like the pineapple one Rick

Thanks A Lot

[launchpad]

i am new sow I dont now long this talk as bin going on but I like to eat shoe sting snard rabbit and sourdok and boild powk

[Rick]

Do you use a shoe string to snare them?

[launchpad]

yes boy scouts 1o1 if you have it on you find a way to use it o by the way sasafras tea is good to

[GVan]

This list isn't just mine, but as my wife grew up in the country side of Korea, some of it is hers as well.

Wild grapes
Wild grape leaves (steamed)
Wild grape stem inner core (boiled)
Cat Tail
wapato (a bit strong)
wild sage
sea lettuce
Large of tender wild grasses (steamed)
Wild rice
Palmetto leaf inner core
termites
Sugar ants
Snake
Turtle
early spring fiddle heads
Brown sea kelp
Sassafras Root, Bark, Leaf
Dandelion
Red clover
Pine needles
Pine Nuts
Oak Nuts
California Ice Plant leaflet cored
Prickly Pear
All kinds of rodents (rats, mice, rabbits, squirrels, Guinea pigs, bats (very hard to catch))
fish
frogs
birds (any size)
snails
Inner cores from many wild vines
Wild berries
Powdered dried earthworms make a great broth thickener that's high in protein


Now I'm hyngry,... I think I'll go and forrage in my back yakd for a while.

[Tahyo]

Try this!

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/food.htm

Hard tack recipes is in here and how to use it.

Don

I just made some whole wheat hardtack yesterday and vacuum sealed it today. Though the stuff usually lasts a long time, I rotate it every year in the emergency bags in our vehicles. I tossed some flax seed in this year.

[grazer]

Hi LarryB. Hundred choices around here. This time of year I like to enjoy the fresh stuff. lots of spring greens, a salad of violets, chickweed, and wintercress or watercress is a nice combo. The mildness of the violets and cress combined with the earthy flavor of the chickweed is a favorite. I also like some of the flower choices, throwing in some eastern redbud or whaterever is at hand.

[Timbo1]

My name is Timbo. I live in the UK although I've camped all over the world. I have bought a few woods to share with friends in the Uk - so we can camp without someone trying to stop our fun.

Really like this site...some good advice - although we don't have all the plants you guys have.

Timbo
http://owningyourownwood.blogspot.com/

[Rick]

Timbo - Welcome to the forum. I repaired your link. Hence, the reason for the edit in your post.

References to your web site need to be placed in your signature rather than the email. That is actually better for you in that it will appear in all your posts. The forum doesn't allow you to post links to your own site in the body of an email.