[at-l] "Berry" Good Recipe Suggestions?

[ellen at clinic.net (ellen)]

I spent the weekend at a White Mountain National Forest campground in the Mount Washington Valley and a couple of miles from Pinkham Notch, mostly for a family reunion. Around 40 members of an extended family arrived Friday and left Sunday a.m.

But Saturday evening I attended a forest service program on using the wild foods found in the northern mountains.

We learned how to use the inner bark of cherry trees as a cough suppressant, eat day lilly blossoms in salads and fritters, make sumac tea, use wood sorrel for flavor and an aid to digestion, make American basswood sandwiches, use wintergreen as a tea and a wild aspirin, and eat such varied things as sedom, St. John's wort, elderberries and blossoms and fennel.

Most intriguing was the use of primitive horsetail as a source of "gatoraid" minerals and as a pot scrubber.

Weary 

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: W F Thorneloe <thornel@attglobal.net>
> To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Date: Thu, Jul-15-2004 4:17 PM
> Subject: RE: [at-l] "Berry" Good Recipe Suggestions?
> 
> Waterfall asks for guidance for a hiking/cookbook idea that is charming 
> and 
> attractive.
> 
> I hope she doesn't write this book. LNT encourages us to make our use 
> of 
> the backcountry with as little impact as possible. Our berry picking 
> means 
> some critter will not eat those berries.
> 
>