Heart to Hearth Cookery

Drying Sunchokes

After slicing the sunchokes, I placed them on a piece of bark on my drying rack.  The public thought they were parsnips so I placed one of the tubers on the bark with them.  The thoughts of parsnips subsided but now it changed to ginger!  I had some sunchoke plants with me so people could see how the tubers grew.  The sunchokes dried very quickly even though it was not full sun. Now they are ready for grinding into flour.  Also in the picture, is the trade kettle with hominy corn, squash, beans and sunchoke scrapings.  Corn flat bread is on the rock greased with bear grease.