I am just brushing up on my wildfoods cookbook.
I am now reading about cattails in the bush because where I live they are very abundant.
Use the inner stalks as a cooked veggie.
Sliced roots cooked or roasted on the fire or in a gruel (remove fibers).
As a meal from dried roots (removed fibers then pound into a meal).
The pollen is eaten raw or ground into a flour, it supposedly resembles a musty wheat flavor and used to make cakes or bread, but some sort of animal fat (porcupine is suggested) is needed for cakes and bread. The pollen can also be used as a thickener in stews. Use the pollen as a fire starter as it is very flammable.
Make a pillow by using an old shirt, by tying the sleeves together and stuffing with the cattail pollen.
I am now reading about cattails in the bush because where I live they are very abundant.
Use the inner stalks as a cooked veggie.
Sliced roots cooked or roasted on the fire or in a gruel (remove fibers).
As a meal from dried roots (removed fibers then pound into a meal).
The pollen is eaten raw or ground into a flour, it supposedly resembles a musty wheat flavor and used to make cakes or bread, but some sort of animal fat (porcupine is suggested) is needed for cakes and bread. The pollen can also be used as a thickener in stews. Use the pollen as a fire starter as it is very flammable.
Make a pillow by using an old shirt, by tying the sleeves together and stuffing with the cattail pollen.
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