The Truth About Water Lily Root As Survival Food
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Date: 2021-05-17
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Dragunov
Dragon turnips (Jack-in-the-pulpit) are easier made edible. Maybe slicing it potato chip thin, and drying it for six months, might make it edible. I've done Dragon turnips this way. PAPER thin, dry for six months. They still had a little sting to them, and I personally couldn't eat a bunch of it, but it STILL tasted better than Lily Root.
I'd rather have a gun put to my head, and be forced to swallow a bowling ball, than to try water lily again. Ewwww! (ShUdDeR)
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Dragon turnips (Jack-in-the-pulpit) are easier made edible. Maybe slicing it potato chip thin, and drying it for six months, might make it edible. I've done Dragon turnips this way. PAPER thin, dry for six months. They still had a little sting to them, and I personally couldn't eat a bunch of it, but it STILL tasted better than Lily Root.
I'd rather have a gun put to my head, and be forced to swallow a bowling ball, than to try water lily again. Ewwww! (ShUdDeR)
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Luke
Hey
If you are up for another experiment with this root one I have been meaning to test is a technique used by Australian Aboriginals to make edible a poisonous yam found there. They roast the yams whole with the skin on until fully cooked and then slice up this and place into a reed bag they make. Here I would recommend mesh. and leave in a running stream overnight to leech out the toxins
If this is a viable option it would remove much of the labor
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Hey
If you are up for another experiment with this root one I have been meaning to test is a technique used by Australian Aboriginals to make edible a poisonous yam found there. They roast the yams whole with the skin on until fully cooked and then slice up this and place into a reed bag they make. Here I would recommend mesh. and leave in a running stream overnight to leech out the toxins
If this is a viable option it would remove much of the labor
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Tori
Talk about confusion. you are showing two different plants and calling them both Water Lilies. One is called Spatterdock with a small yellow roundish flower and a heart shaped leaf, the other is the common white flowering pond lily with a round leaf. I believe the tuber that you picked up was the Spatterdock and not the white flowering water lily. Best to ID your plants before you eat them.
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Talk about confusion. you are showing two different plants and calling them both Water Lilies. One is called Spatterdock with a small yellow roundish flower and a heart shaped leaf, the other is the common white flowering pond lily with a round leaf. I believe the tuber that you picked up was the Spatterdock and not the white flowering water lily. Best to ID your plants before you eat them.
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krlife
Hi love your experiment. Have you tried soaking the sliced/unsliced lily root in water for about 3-5 days? Changing the water everyday. This is one of the method of making the poisonous Dioscorea daemona edible. The other one is to left it in a streaming water/river for 3-5 days. Need to peel off the skin first. Maybe can help with removing the undesirable taste or smell.
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Hi love your experiment. Have you tried soaking the sliced/unsliced lily root in water for about 3-5 days? Changing the water everyday. This is one of the method of making the poisonous Dioscorea daemona edible. The other one is to left it in a streaming water/river for 3-5 days. Need to peel off the skin first. Maybe can help with removing the undesirable taste or smell.
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Alan
Very informative video, thanks. My wife, who is Chinese, eats lily root in China. She says you should not boil it as the boiling process causes the root to shrink and the taste to intensify. She recommends soaking it for 24 hours in water around 30-40 degrees C (86- 104 Deg F) then it is OK. It is used in China as medicine for its bitterness which is essential.
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Very informative video, thanks. My wife, who is Chinese, eats lily root in China. She says you should not boil it as the boiling process causes the root to shrink and the taste to intensify. She recommends soaking it for 24 hours in water around 30-40 degrees C (86- 104 Deg F) then it is OK. It is used in China as medicine for its bitterness which is essential.
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Travis
I freaking heard of a way to process this at one rare. moment of reading online. I can not for the life of me remember what it was but for some reason I have a feeling it was something like soak in lye water for 24, leach in moving water for 24 and then cook. I have to find that now cause I wanted to try it.
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I freaking heard of a way to process this at one rare. moment of reading online. I can not for the life of me remember what it was but for some reason I have a feeling it was something like soak in lye water for 24, leach in moving water for 24 and then cook. I have to find that now cause I wanted to try it.
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SuperGeert123
Any 1 tried with sugar? It s the opposite of bitter. For experiment, recommended nice brown sugar. No cheap white.
Apparently tribes in Papa New have water lily as part of their diet. And apparently, some part of the plant turned in to a flour.
Maybe the make some kinda bread/ cake.
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Any 1 tried with sugar? It s the opposite of bitter. For experiment, recommended nice brown sugar. No cheap white.
Apparently tribes in Papa New have water lily as part of their diet. And apparently, some part of the plant turned in to a flour.
Maybe the make some kinda bread/ cake.
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Nomadic
Nice test. I had read that the water Lilly was really bitter in the AF Bourbeau book survivethon. I tasted the root before but haven't tried boiling in lots of changes of water. not very appetizing. Lol I loved seeing your families reaction to it! :) cool video my friend.
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Nice test. I had read that the water Lilly was really bitter in the AF Bourbeau book survivethon. I tasted the root before but haven't tried boiling in lots of changes of water. not very appetizing. Lol I loved seeing your families reaction to it! :) cool video my friend.
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HangTuffSurvival
I had to give your family a thumbs up! They are the real taste testers. Mine won't eat MREs. Tell your wife thanks for sacrificing the smell of her house. Great job! You need to get them all fake beards to wear in your video. lol
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I had to give your family a thumbs up! They are the real taste testers. Mine won't eat MREs. Tell your wife thanks for sacrificing the smell of her house. Great job! You need to get them all fake beards to wear in your video. lol
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PrimaBellas
You shouldn't allow your child to experiment with eating foraged foods until you know for certain it is edible. If there are toxins in the plant, it will affect your child more than it would you because he's smaller.
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You shouldn't allow your child to experiment with eating foraged foods until you know for certain it is edible. If there are toxins in the plant, it will affect your child more than it would you because he's smaller.
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