backwoods menu/Wild tea.

**FVR** · 01-07-2008, 09:35 PM

Maybe we should have a recipe area.

**FVR** · 01-07-2008, 09:40 PM

Sarge,

What have you done. I can post on two threads at once. Whooohoooooooooo..........

**Elkchsr** · 01-08-2008, 01:28 AM

A recipe area would be a great idea, especially for jerkys and other goodies we can make at home

**Rick** · 01-08-2008, 08:47 AM

Does anyone carry panforte with them? It's a mixture of flour, honey, shortening, nuts and dried fruit.

Here's a recipe for meatless pemmican for those of you that are vegetarians. It's from physicalmind.com:

MEATLESS PEMMICAN
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup dried pumpkin or squash
1/2 cup peanuts
1/2 cup acorn or cornmeal
1/2 cup hickory nuts
1/3 cup honey or maple syrup
1/2 cup dried apples

In order to make sure that the acorn or cornmeal is bone-dry, spread it in a thin layer on a cookie sheet and place it in a warm oven for 15 to 30 minutes, checking frequently. The oven should be at the lowest possible setting. Then combine the dry ingredients and either chop them with a knife or grind them coarsely through a food grinder. Add the honey or maple syrup and blend thoroughly. Divide the mixture into 1/4-cup portions, press into cakes, and store in the refrigerator.

Watch out! Such fiber will have a 'bathroom' effect, and it will be very high energy from the sugars in the honey and fruit. However, the excellent fats and proteins from the nuts will help counter the over-abundance of energy.

**Rick** · 01-08-2008, 09:54 AM

With regard to Elkchsr's suggestion on a recipe area, what do you folks think of this? How about a forum library? It could contain sub categories of:

1. Forum Instructions such as my sticky on how to upload images.
2. Recipes
3. Survival documents - I have a number of Army survival documents I'd be willing to upload.
4. Gear reviews - A lot of folks have done write ups on gear and this would consolidate those.
5. How to's: Instructions on such things as How to build fires, How to purify water, etc. We've seen a lot of different suggestions that might not be found in a survival document.
6. The perfect whatever. Mitch did a nice job on the survival knife write up. We could include other items such as the perfect clothing material, hat, boots, socks. Whatever. There are a lot of opinions on each of those but Mitch circumvented the opinion issue very nicely and others could follow that example.
7. Wilderness Medicine

Those are just some ideas. Others could be added. Some of these deleted. I would expect that the "keeper of the flame" would have final say on what goes into the library. Some gatekeeper (Sarge) would probably need to control it to some extend. But that would give newcomers a place to go and find, "What's the best...." without having to search through the threads or start the 93rd thread on the same issue. I like vBulletin a lot but its search engine can be cumbersome at times.

**Sarge47** · 01-08-2008, 10:26 PM

Sounds like a good idea to me!

**Elkchsr** · 01-08-2008, 11:48 PM

That would be a great idea and an excellent expansion of what I said...

In the words of a famous poet....

GITERDONE!!!

**corndog-44** · 01-09-2008, 02:24 AM

Rick, I gotta give credit where credit is due... a forum library is a good idea.

**Rick** · 01-09-2008, 07:44 AM

Okay - In the spirit of Git-R-Done, the next question is should the library be 1. an open forum category, 2. a closed forum category or 3. a moderated forum category? I don't think we want anyone and everyone posting comments, etc. into the library yet we need to be able to post legitimate items such as Mitch's write up. So I would suggest it be a moderated forum category. That would require Chris or Sarge to validate any new post or thread. That might be cumbersome at first as we build the base (we could also leave it open at first and migrate to a moderated category later) but once the base is built it should be on a onesy twosy basis so they shouldn't have too much validating to do.

The second order of business is what sub-categories need to be included? Once those items are decided, all of this with Chris' permission of course, then Chris could add the forums.

Thoughts?

**nell67** · 01-09-2008, 07:51 AM

I think it should be moderated from the get go,that way it would eliminate the redundancy of information being added.

**trax** · 01-09-2008, 03:02 PM

Can't we just run a thread that's recipes only and Chris or Sarge can turf anything that isn't? We're bound to get some repitition in some of the recipes I'd imagine, and we can divide it up into like...wild meat or vegetables harvested wild categories....I dunno...you guys post recipes I'll go home and try them

that works for me!

**wildWoman** · 01-10-2008, 09:49 PM

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

**Rick** · 01-10-2008, 09:51 PM

Oh, Lord. She said the bad word again. Here we go........

**wildWoman** · 01-10-2008, 09:54 PM

What was that?? my problem is I always have to rush so as not to waste too much energy and always seem to miss half of the posts...

**Rick** · 01-10-2008, 10:05 PM

Psssst. Mushrooms. We don't mention those things on here. We had the world's longest post over them. Once it gets started it just never ends.

**nell67** · 01-12-2008, 05:57 PM

Has anyone here heard of it ,or eaten it?It is made from the blood of a hog,and I remember my grandmother making it everytime we butchered hogs when I was a kid,I could never get the courage up to taste it though.
My grandparents always said you can use every part of the pig except the sqeal,and yea I remember them having "mountain oysters" when they castrated the young males,not eating that stuff either,somethings are better left off the table,and these are 2 of them in my opinion.

**canid** · 01-12-2008, 06:24 PM

moreover, many mushrooms have significant amounts of protien, wich [provided you have enough water, some fat intake and a bit of carbs] is a good source of calories.

the real danger, as with plants is the identification.

if you are in a subsistence situation, you'd be better off knowing a few key, useful mushroom species in advance, rather than trying to identify unfamiliar species when there is other food about.

i eat a new species of mushroom often, but in the comfort of my own home and after i've had the chance to be sure of the placement of said mushroom into a safe taxon. if i needed to condider eating mushrooms for subsistence, i'd stick to the few dozen species i can recognize on sight. if you are truely familiar with one or two, or six, or a dozen edibles and happen to come across one you know, same deal, would you sddenly trust them less?