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Screwbean Mesquite (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/foraging@lemm.ee

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I recently found out that Screwbean Mesquite is ground into meal and flour and used in baking. As a kid we would chew on Mesquite Beans, but we never messed with these.

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How was it? I've been ordering mesquite flour online because we don't have any species of them where I live lol.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I was unable to do anything with the Screwbeans this year because we got a large rain storm early in the season. And with Mesquite you are supposed to harvest before the beans get soaked because of a fungus.

My sister gave me a small bag of Mesquite flour, but it is barely enough to do anything with it. But I always enjoyed chewing the beans as a kid.