Post by Okwes on Jul 22, 2006 11:18:04 GMT -5
Ancient Flour and Hominy
Our ancestors made flour from many different kinds of seeds, nuts, roots and
bark. Sump seed, white acorns, green amaranth seeds, the inner bark of the
American Aspen and more. We did not have wheat, barley or the grains of the
European. In truth, our grains were much healthier than those of the European.
In the times before our people began growing corn as a staple, we gathered
the seeds and these other things and made use of these. Anthropologists have
discovered that our people in that time did not suffer from tooth decay and
other diseases that followed when we began to grow corn. Corn is a good crop,
but too much is not good for a person. A person needs a balanced diet.
Wheat, barley and those crops introduced by the European and their heavy
reliance on those and sweets have caused a terrible occurrance among our Native
peoples of diabetes and obesity.
They also made flour from cane growing on the river.
We gathered the leaves from the cane, dried these, ground them very fine
like we did the corn. The cane was burned and the ashes were used to make the
lye with.
They also had roots that they dried or cooked and then ground to make flour
of.
To make a baking powder substitute, they used wood ashes from the fire and
mixed it with one of the flours to be used in corn muffins.
To make hominy, soak corn kernels in the lye above and wash out the lye when
they were ready.
Our ancestors made flour from many different kinds of seeds, nuts, roots and
bark. Sump seed, white acorns, green amaranth seeds, the inner bark of the
American Aspen and more. We did not have wheat, barley or the grains of the
European. In truth, our grains were much healthier than those of the European.
In the times before our people began growing corn as a staple, we gathered
the seeds and these other things and made use of these. Anthropologists have
discovered that our people in that time did not suffer from tooth decay and
other diseases that followed when we began to grow corn. Corn is a good crop,
but too much is not good for a person. A person needs a balanced diet.
Wheat, barley and those crops introduced by the European and their heavy
reliance on those and sweets have caused a terrible occurrance among our Native
peoples of diabetes and obesity.
They also made flour from cane growing on the river.
We gathered the leaves from the cane, dried these, ground them very fine
like we did the corn. The cane was burned and the ashes were used to make the
lye with.
They also had roots that they dried or cooked and then ground to make flour
of.
To make a baking powder substitute, they used wood ashes from the fire and
mixed it with one of the flours to be used in corn muffins.
To make hominy, soak corn kernels in the lye above and wash out the lye when
they were ready.