The sunchoke bread prepared from pounded, dried sunchokes and water is now ready to be cooked at the fire either in what is known as clean ash or on a hot rock.
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The sunchoke bread prepared from pounded, dried sunchokes and water is now ready to be cooked at the fire either in what is known as clean ash or on a hot rock.
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After the sunchoke flour has been mixed with flour and kneaded very well for the receipt (recipe) Sunchoke Bread as described by European observers of the Lenape, the bread is formed. Pictured from left to right, sliced spring sunchokes dried, a gourd of sunchoke flour prepared by pounding the dried sunchokes, and the sunchoke bread ready for baking.
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When there is enough dried sunchokes flour pounded to prepare the Lenape receipt (recipe) the Europeans described as sunchoke bread, the sunchoke flour is placed in a wood bowl and water added.
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The gourd bowl is filled with all the sunchoke flour that was made by harvesting the early spring sunchoke tubers, drying them, and pounding them into flour for the receipt (recipe) described as sunchoke bread by the Europeans.
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After the early spring sunchoke tubers have been dried in the sun, the dried sunchoke pieces were pounded into flour on a stone mortar with a stone pestle for the receipt (recipe) described by European settlers as sunchoke bread.
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After the sunchoke tubers were dug out of the ground before the new plant emerges for the receipt (recipe) Sunchoke bread, each tuber was sliced in thick slices and dried in the sun.
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Sunchokes (often referred to as Jerusalem artichoke) are a knobby, tubular root that are ready for harvesting from late fall through early spring. I harvested my sunchokes to make early spring sunchoke bread before there was any plant growth as seen pictured above when the tuber contains the plant’s stored energy.
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