Home › A Stack of Wheats › Sunshine Flapjacks (As made by the Indians)

Sunshine Flapjacks (As made by the Indians)

(As made by the Indians, of cat-tail pollen) See recipe under Camp Fire Girls' Grub The Indians collected cat-tails in canoes as they did wild rice, and they also ate the tender young cat-tail shoots as greens.

If you must play Indian with breads after trying Sunshine Flapjacks, dig for the tubers of the arrow-leaf that grows along ponds-it's also known as the green arum. You can eat the tubers boiled like potatoes, or grate and dry them, and make thin cakes out of the meal.

Early Utah Mormons made their bread-or was it manna?-out of the bulbs of the wild sego lily just as Montana Indians made bitter root bread. And the blooms of both of these bread plants have been made the official flowers of their respective states, the Utah lily and Montana root.

Ground nuts and sprig nuts, not really nuts but little tubers like peanuts, are hunted by most small boys who live near a wood lot anywhere in the East. But it is not generally known that the nuts can be pounded into meal and then turned into nutty little cakes.

Indian bread was made from the poisonous Jack-in-thepulpit roots, too, by a long tedious process that involved soaking them with wood ashes, after which their starchy remains furnished very wholesome cakes .