CampRecipes Classic Archive
This recipe is part of the CampRecipes Classic Recipe Archive. It was originally submitted to the CampRecipes community and is preserved as historical outdoor cooking content. Some formatting, ingredient wording, or cooking guidance may reflect the original submission.
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Original Date: 2004-06-17
Serves: any
Prep Time: 60m+
Difficulty: easy
Backpacking: No
Ingredients
- fruits from a broad leaf yucca plant–they grow on a stalk that comes up from the center of the plant
Instructions
Bake in a covered pit or slow burning fire–as long as you can–overnight is best.Peel off the skin and remove the seeds and fiber. What is left is a sweet paste that can be eaten or shaped into bars and dried for more emergency food for later.
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