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The bark bread was seen as nutritionally deficient, more as "stomach filler" than as actual sustenance. Both the bishop Pontoppidan and others blamed the high mortality during the famine of the 1740s on the "unhealthy bark bread" and general lack of food. [4] [10] Among the Sami, however, the bark and bark bread made from Scots pine served as ...
Nordic bread culture has existed in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from prehistoric times through to the present. It is often characterized by the usage of rye flour, barley flour, a mixture of nuts, seeds, and herbs, and varying densities depending on the region. [1] Often, bread is served as an accompaniment to various recipes and meals.
A Charity play organized in favor of the famine victims, Sweden, 1867. In the autumn of 1867, the government of Sweden granted emergency loans to the Northern counties, and the county governors were given permission and encouraged to establish emergency committees (Swedish: undsättningskomitté) to collect the funds needed from volunteers and philanthropists. [3]
Pine bark served as famine food in Finland – most recently, during and after the civil war of 1918. The Famine of 1866–1868 was the last famine in Finland, and (along with the subsequent Swedish famine of 1867-1869) the last major famine in Northern Europe. [1] In Finland, the famine is known as "the great hunger years", or suuret ...
Näkkileipä, crisp rye bread, is also common. Famines caused by crop failures in the 19th century caused Finns to improvise pettuleipä or bark bread, [11] bread made from rye flour and the soft phloem layer of pine bark, which was nutritious, but rock-hard and anything but tasty. It was eaten also during the Second World War, and the ...
Treculia africana is a tree species in the genus Treculia which can be used as a food plant and for various other traditional uses. The fruits are hard and fibrous, can be the size of a volleyball and weight up to 8.5 kg (19 lb).
Ingredients. 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature. 3/4 cup mayonnaise. 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted. 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar. 1 cup shredded Swiss
Breads made of orache and bran, fried in machine oil, were used as food in besieged Leningrad. [citation needed]A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depression or war, or by natural disasters such as drought.