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: 2002-11-02
Serves: 1-2
Prep Time: 1-30m
Difficulty: easy
Backpacking: No
Ingredients
- fully grown grasshoppers 2 c boiling water
- Outside layer of a tree root–careful, some roots are poisonous!
Instructions
Gather up to fifteen grasshoppers. Heat over fire and then put into boiling water. Peel off about 3, 5 inch. strips of the tree root. Boil about 10 min.
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