10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRAIRIE TURNIP»
Discover the use of
prairie turnip in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prairie turnip and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Wildflowers of the Tallgrass
Prairie: The Upper Midwest
Although the prairie turnip was common on the prairie, the prairie flora was
largely unknown to the pioneers traveling west in prairie schooners. They drove
over the same kinds of food plants that they were buying from the Plains Indians.
Sylvan T. Runkel, Dean M. Roosa, 2009
2
Alberta Formed, Alberta Transformed
The root is shaped like a carrot but tastes like a turnip.121 Wissler noted the
prairie turnip was prepared to eat by "baking in hot ashes""" Similarly, McClintock
noted the "wild" turnip was eaten boiled or roasted.123 The plant is widely ...
Catherine Anne Cavanaugh, Michael Payne, Donald Grant Wetherell, 2006
3
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom
Among these are—1st, the mendo, or wild sweet potato; 2nd, the tip- sin-ah, or
wild prairie turnip; 3rd, the omen-e-chah, or wild bean. The first is found
throughout the valleys of the Mississippi and St. Peter's, about the basis of bluffs,
in rather ...
4
Women of the First Nations: Power, Wisdom, and Strength
The harvest time for the prairie turnip lasted only a few weeks in the late spring
and early summer, and after that it was nearly impossible to locate the
underground tuber because the flower and stalk broke off and blew away.28
Many bushels ...
Christine Miller, Patricia Churchryk, 1996
5
Buried Treasures: Tasty Tubers of the World : how to Grown ...
The prairie turnip's many other common names— tipsin, teepsenee, breadroot,
breadroot scurf pea, and pomme blanche— are evidence of its important place in
North American prairie ethnobotany. It occurs throughout North Dakota and in the
...
6
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
PRAIRIE TURNIP (Psoraiea) FAMILY - Pulse (Leguminosae) OTHER NAMES -
Breadroot, Wild Potato, Prairie Apple, Pomme Blanche, Pomme tie Prairie. Wild
Turnip, Prairie Potato, Indian Breadroot. DESCRIPTION - When John Colter, ...
7
A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines
Wild Turnip: Ehe Pediomelum esculentum Prairie Turnip, Breadroot, Scurf Pea,
Timpsula Ehe, wild turnips — they are our bread food. Of course our turnips are
different from garden turnips. Ehe doesn't taste or look like garden turnips, and ...
Alma Hogan Snell, Lisa Castle, 2006
8
A Field Guide to the North American
Prairie
PRAIRIE TURNIPS The Prairie Turnip (Pediomelum esculentum) was a staple
food of Plains Indian peoples, including the Lakota, who called it tipsinna,
meaning roughly, "the little wild rice of the prairie.' When Prairie Turnips bloomed
in late ...
Stephen R. Jones, Ruth Carol Cushman, 2004
9
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles
The prairie turnip is a member of the pea family. It is a perennial whose large root
, or sometimes group of roots, resembling sweet potato roots, lies entirely
beneath the ground. The generally branched stalks, ON WILD EDIBLES
characterized ...
10
Restoring the Tallgrass
Prairie: An Illustrated Manual for ...
Scurf- pea (Psorcdidium tenuiflora) has smaller leaves that are not downy. Prairie
turnip or prairie potato (Pediomelum esculentum) roots were eaten by pioneers.
Vicia americana Vetch, American vetch, purple vetch Fabaceae (Leguminosae) ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRAIRIE TURNIP»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
prairie turnip is used in the context of the following news items.
Topekans Splash Color On Mural Wall
... a place that's good for digging what we often talk about as prairie potatoes, they're actually like a prairie turnip. It's a naturally occurring thing. «WIBW, May 15»
DeRusha Eats: The Sioux Chef
“There was a lot of wild timpsula, which is a prairie turnip which grows everywhere out there. There were lots of chokecherries growing around, ... «CBS Local, Jan 15»
Revitalizing Food: Oglala Lakota Chef Serves Pre-Colonization Menu
This dried timpsula, or prairie turnip, is braided in the traditional Lakota style from South Dakota. (Sean Sherman). Sherman was sought after by ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, Oct 14»
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“That's a sign of a high-quality prairie. Cattle love this stuff.” He pointed out a prairie turnip. “The Native Americans ate it as a root vegetable. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sep 13»
More Than An Indian Taco
Plains Indians, such as the Lakota Sioux, actually ground timpsula (also known as the prairie turnip) into flour and fried the dough they made with it. Lewis and ... «Cowboys and Indians, Sep 13»
'Plowing with Pigs' offers homesteader projects
The Wills operate Prairie Turnip Farm near Scranton. Back | Next. "Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading ... «Topeka Capital Journal, Mar 13»
Herbal Healer: What is prairie turnip?
The prairie turnip — virtually unknown today — was one of these gems. By far the most important wild food gathered by the tribes living on the ... «nwitimes.com, Nov 12»
The inimitable Doug Wright
... ads for Matinee Kings, recipes for prairie turnip pie — that sort of thing), all the way to the back of the magazine. That's where Canada found ... «Hamilton Spectator, Oct 12»
Potential lies in native prairie perennials
It's called prairie turnip or Indian Breadroot.” This legume was a staple in the diet of Native North Americans. It's edible raw, can be dried for ... «Western Producer, Aug 12»
The World-Class Local Foods That Gardeners Have Overlooked
Real potatoes are from South America, but north of the Rio Grande we have Jerusalem artichokes, hopniss (or groundnut), the prairie turnip, ... «The Atlantic, Mar 11»
