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Hi Rickwhite, how's the hornbeam been getting on? It would be interesting to know how it's been getting on and how you've used it. I made cooking spatula today from green hornbeam, and hope it won't be cracking any time soon!
Very interesting, thanks all. I'm still curious about what evidence there is for making birch tar (non-squeeking variety) in prehistory. Would the wet clay method leave pottery traces? Dave Budd, do you remember if there were any such traces which would survive the process?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but have any of you good folk made birch tar without a tin?
The question came up while in conversation with Karl Lee, of Primitive Technology, while in a flint knapping workshop hosted by Bassetlaw museum. It was felt that Birch tar wasn't an 'authentic' stone...
Planting trees to create woodland is a great way to kickstart it. Willow and birch are pioneer species whose seeds are blown in by wind. Oak will outcompete them all but it tends to be propogated by jays picking up acorns and burying them outside the woodland, or on its grassy margins, so the...
Hmm. Tempted. I'm just south of Doncaster in Retford - but I'm really after a large anvil suitable for backyard smithying. Maybe I could view it to decide?
Someone on Radio 4 was talking about capers made from ransoms, and I thought to myself, surely not? Googling didn't produce anything, but if anyone's going to know, they'd be here. So, any thoughts?
Cheers,
Dom
I found some of this when visiting Orkney (South Ronaldsay) last summer and thought it looked very interesting, with pretty small blue flowers and fleshy leaves, but I didn't try to eat it. Wish I had. Does it need cooking, or what?
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