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❖ Shave off the gray, outer bark and the greenish middle layer of the bark to get down
to the rubbery white or cream-colored inner layer. Be careful not to shave too deeply.
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See picture :

❖ Cut and peel off the whitish, rubbery inner bark.

❖ Dry the bark in the sun on a rack, on a flat rock, or just like in the image. It should take
a day to dry the bark strips, but that’s dependent on the weather and the bark strip
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size .
You can eat the bark as soon as you’ve harvested it. You can
also fry or boil it to make some bark snacks. To make the
bark into flour, you only need to dry it for a day and then
pound it until it turns to powder. You can use a stone for

this or a mortar and mill. The result will look more like
oatmeal than wheat flour.

You can add the bark flour when making your breakfast
bread just like how our great-grandparents survived when
they went through severe famine. Bark bread was also
something that was actually part of their diet. Even during

38 “Detaching inner bark of pine” - Juha Kämäräinen

39 “Barkbrod” - Ulltand1

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