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Winter Storage
| VH 5, 79 |
She was making a storage container, thinking about everything she had to do to make herself secure for the cold season ahead.
The currants I picked yesterday will be dry in a few days, she estimated, glancing at the round red berries spread out on grass mats on her front porch. By then, more will be ripe. There will be a lot
of blueberries, but I won't get much out of that scrawny little apple tree. The cherry tree is full, but they're almost too ripe. If I'm going to get some, I'd better do it today. Sunflower seeds will be good, if the birds don't get them all first. I think those were hazelnut bushes by the apple tree, but they're so much smaller than the ones by the little cave, I'm not sure. I think those pine trees are the kind with the big nuts in the cones, though. I'll check them later. (...)
I should start drying greens. And lichen. And mushrooms. And roots. I won't have to dry all the roots, some will keep for a long time in the back of the cave. Should I get more pigweed seeds? They're so small, it never seems like much. Grain is worth the effort, though, and some seed heads
in the meadow are ripe. I'll get cherries and grain today, but I'm going to need more storage baskets. Maybe I can make some containers out of birchbark. (...)
It would be nice to have a little salt, but there's no sea around here. Coltsfoot tastes salty, and other herbs can add flavor.
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| MH 8, 119-120 |
"Roots and fruit are stored higher up," Talut said to the visitors, pulling back another drape and showing them baskets heaped with // knobby, brown-skinned, starchy groundnuts; small, pale, yellow wild carrots; the succulent lower stems of cattails and bulrushes; and other produces stored
at ground level around the edge of a deeper pit. "They last longer if they are kept cold, but freezing makes them soft."
(...) Nezzie said as she was filling a large basket with various vegetables. "Now where did I put those dried onion flowers?" |
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Abbreviations |
Editions |
| CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990.
Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions. |
| VH |
The Valley of Horses |
| MH |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| PP |
The Plains of Passage |
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| MGMH |
'A Modern Herbal', by Mrs. M. Grieve |
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