Cattail survival uses book?

[gringogigante]

I have recently been made aware of the survival uses of cattails. Does anyone know of a book that documents the extensive uses of cattails as a food source?

 

[Southpaw]

I didn't know that. Not a book, but for those who didn't know either a quick summary.

https://www.ediblewildfood.com/cattail.aspx

Edible parts: The lower parts of the leaves can be used in a salad; the young stems can be eaten raw or boiled; the young flowers (cattails) can be roasted. Yellow pollen (appears mid-summer) of the cattail can be added to pancakes for added nutrients. Shake the pollen into a paper bag and use it as a thickener in soups and stews or mix it with flour for some great tasting bread. The root can be dried and pounded to make nutritious flour. Young shoots can be prepared like asparagus but requires longer cooking time to make them tender. Added to soup towards the end of cooking, they retain a refreshing crunchiness. They're superb in stir-fry dishes and excellent in virtually any context.

 

[Bozz10mm]

You can't eat the whole cat?

 

[grasshopperglock]

From a nutritional standpoint. The water that cattails grow will have more sources of protein then anything the plant has.

If you get that hungry. There's crawdads, grubs, grasshoppers, salamander, geckos, bull frogs, bull frog tadpoles, toads, snakes, caterpillars, and small perch.

The only thing I could see a cattail benefiting. Is for some fiber to crap out the above listed proteins.

 

[BRD@66]

You can't eat the whole cat?

No, but there's at least two ways to skin one.

 

[Longhorn1986]

Do a search for Euell Gibbons. If anyone would have written a book on eating cattails, it would have been him.

 

[jrbfishn]

Do a search for Euell Gibbons. If anyone would have written a book on eating cattails, it would have been him.

I remember him. One of the authorities on edible plants in the 60s.

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[grasshopperglock]

Do a search for Euell Gibbons. If anyone would have written a book on eating cattails, it would have been him.

Ok. I did.

Here's the dude selling a box of GrapeNuts.

Looking further. Cattail pancakes. I'd eat a cattail pancake before I'd eat GrapeNuts. I've never been that level of hungry, lol.

 

[jrbfishn]

I like that cereal.

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[Bozz10mm]

Have you ever eaten a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Euell Gibbons

 

[vmax]

"The only thing I could see a cattail benefiting. Is for some fiber to crap out the above listed proteins."

Very true
A waste of time and effort in a survival scenario

 

[gringogigante]

Ok. I did.

Here's the dude selling a box of GrapeNuts.

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Looking further. Cattail pancakes. I'd eat a cattail pancake before I'd eat GrapeNuts. I've never been that level of hungry, lol.

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Good Lord.... I remember Grapenuts. Made my teeth hurt to eat those little things.

 

[gringogigante]

"The only thing I could see a cattail benefiting. Is for some fiber to crap out the above listed proteins."

Very true
A waste of time and effort in a survival scenario

Yeah I kind of feel the same. But I used to eat the shoots as a kid, and remember them being pretty good. I'm more looking to expand my breadth of knowledge for camping and hunting.

 

[MikePotts]

Y'all R Tryin to trick me.

 

[Big Green]

Have you ever eaten a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Euell Gibbons

Unless you're a pregnant woman. Pine needle tea is an abortifacient. Ok, not all but Ponderosa Pine is one species that can.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

IF you could find a book on cattail you would should get it, it has more calories and nutrition that a truck load of cattail...

1 oz =

Calories
7.0

From Carbohydrate
5.7

From Fat
0.0

From Protein
1.3

Total Fat
0.0

Saturated Fat
0.0

Monounsaturated Fat
0.0


Polyunsaturated Fat
0.0


Total trans fatty acids
0.0


Total trans-monoenoic fatty acids
0.0


Total trans-polyenoic fatty acids
0.0


Total Omega-3 fatty acids
0.0


Total Omega-6 fatty acids
0.0

Read More http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/ethnic-foods/10462/2#ixzz5KxDz2PXP

 

[HKaltwasser]

A general wild eatables for Texas would be nice to have.