{"id":64363,"date":"2022-12-05T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64363"},"modified":"2022-12-05T06:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:23:17","slug":"how-to-make-birch-bark-flour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64363","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Birch Bark Flour"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/practicalselfreliance.com\/birch-bark-flour\/\">HOW TO MAKE BIRCH BARK FLOUR (PLUS BIRCH SHORTBREAD COOKIES)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Walking through\u00a0the forest, most people never realize how much food is growing all around them.\u00a0 Sure, most people know you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/practicalselfreliance.com\/making-maple-syrup\/\">tap maple trees for syrup<\/a>\u00a0and that you can collect acorns from oak trees.\u00a0 But what about the others?<\/p>\n<p>Birch trees are edible in a number of different ways.\u00a0 Birch trees can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/practicalselfreliance.com\/tapping-birch-trees\/\">tapped for syrup<\/a>, and the nutritious sap is used medicinally in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The early\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nordicfoodlab.org\/blog\/2016\/1\/6\/birch-buds\">spring buds<\/a>\u00a0are aromatic and flavorful if you can catch them before they break bud.\u00a0 But beyond that, the inner bark can be made into a surprisingly nutritious flour, containing 500 to 600 calories per pound of flour.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I\u2019ve tried it, I found that it tastes quite a bit like buckwheat flour, and it makes delicious cookies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10688 size-full lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/practicalselfreliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birch-Bark-Flour-3-of-6.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Birch Bark Flour\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRADITIONAL USE OF BIRCH BARK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birch bark flour is made by harvesting the inner bark that carries nutrients from the roots up to the leaves.\u00a0 The outer bark is used to make baskets and buckets, like traditional sap buckets, but the inner bark is the edible part.<\/p>\n<p>Birch bark was traditionally harvested by the Sami people in Northern Sweeden.\u00a0 While some references say that bark bread was a survival food, there\u2019s evidence that it was eaten even in times of plenty.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nordicfoodlab.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/tree-bark\">Nordic Food Lab<\/a>, a group that researches traditional Nordic foods,\u00a0<em>\u201cThere is no indication in our records that historically well-known famine years resulted in more bark being peeled in those years.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 They found that it was a staple food source in the 1600s and 1700s.<\/p>\n<p>There is some evidence that eating bark flour bread was actually a sign of wealth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW TO MAKE BIRCH BARK FLOUR (PLUS BIRCH SHORTBREAD COOKIES) Walking through\u00a0the forest, most people never realize how much food is growing all around them.\u00a0 Sure, most people know you can\u00a0tap maple trees for syrup\u00a0and that you can collect acorns from oak trees.\u00a0 But what about the others? 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