prairie turnip การใช้

• Buffalo meat was often roasted or boiled in a stew with prairie turnips.
• The prairie turnip was also a reliable food in times of shortage or famine.
• The prairie turnip takes 2 to 4 years to grow from seed to mature root.
• Prairie turnip flour is often used as a " secret ingredient " in modern Indian frybread recipes.
• Plants utilized by the Plains Apache include : chokecherries, blackberries, grapes, prairie turnips, wild onions, and wild plums.
• The prairie turnip is more nutritious than most root crops, containing about 7 percent protein, more than 50 percent carbohydrates, and is rich in vitamins and trace minerals.
• Abundant under favorable conditions, palatable, and nutritious, the prairie turnip was once a wild-gathered staple food of the Plains Indians, especially the nomads, and of early European explorers.
• Although most species are poisonous, the starchy roots of " P . esculenta " ( breadroot, tipsin, or prairie turnip ) and " P . hypogaea " are edible.
• Asked by white settlers what the name of the place was, he answered,  Topeka,  stating that it meant  a good place to grow potatoes,  probably meaning the Prairie turnip rather than the common potato.
• As a food, the prairie turnip has been described variously as a " delicacy, " " tolerably good eating, " or " tasteless and insipid . " The Indian's use of it as food is described as follows : " they eat it uncooked, or they boil it, or roast it in the embers, or dry it, and crush it to powder and make soup of it.