yup, that's what i do htc. i don't like it too hard either, so i cook it longer like you said.
never made it in soup tho. sounds good, like it might add more depth of flavor to the soup.
btw, thanks for ressurecting a good thread. we were just chatting about survival stuff yesterday on another thread.
Konditor said:
It was interesting to read your description of the traditional method used by the tribesmen to gather wild rice. I wonder, how did they use the grain for food? Was the majority of it sold?
konditor, i've only read about what native americans did years ago, before the white man invaded. the grains were used for their own tribe, or might have been used for barter with other tribes.
i've tried it, but some of the success depends on knowing exactly when to harvest so the grains seperate from the stalks and chaff. i ground what little i collected, then added it to a roasted acorn, wild garlic/onion and dandelion soup. it was bitter, and very gassy, but edible. reminds me of lewis and clark's expedition when they got to the mandan villages. after eating gunpowder flavored horsemeat (gunpowder = salt peter = salty) for so long, the men shared the food of the mandans, which was mostly roots, berries, and salmon. the men got such bad gas they went back to eating their horses.