A Russian birch tree and a beauty, and a nurse, and a drinker, and a heater... This gorgeous white tree pleases the eye and warms the soul.
We periodically make tea from sapwood (the soft brown part of the wood under the bark). Tea made from wood has antiseptic properties and we like the taste (we ourselves do not offend birch trees, but we only "plan" logs already prepared by someone).
Even birch porridge is made from sapwood and bark (it is especially juicy in spring, when sokogon). In times of famine, peasants added sapwood to flour to increase its amount.
Ingredients:
1. Sapwood - the size of a palm (can be made from bast)
2. Water - a couple of glasses
Preparation
How we do it. They got sapwood (they dug with a knife from a fresh spring, summer, autumn or winter log), cleaned about birch bark (by the way, disinfecting antifungal insoles from which you do not sweat can be made from birch bark legs). They crumbled it into smaller pieces, poured it into a thermo mug, poured boiling water over it, left it overnight.
In the morning, the infusion was poured into a ladle, heated, filtered and consumed throughout the day (we add birch cake to bran or other porridge, jelly as a fiber and a bioadditive).
It's nice to know that nature cares about us and there is food for survival in forest conditions and there is a lot of it (soon we will share useful recipes from trees, shrubs, plant roots that are considered useless weeds).
Have a nice winter day, dear friends! :)
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