Quick links
biscuit root
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
See prairie turnip 1892 quote.
See: prairie turnip
Quotations
1868
The white biscuit root, the racine blanc of the Voyageurs . . . is dried, pulverised, and made into cakes baken in the sun.
1891
The kouse-root . . . known to Canadians as racine blanc and bread or biscuit root, is largely used.
1923
. . . they gathered also other nutritious roots and wild fruits, such as caious (a biscuit root) . . . and mountain cherries, which they dried into cakes.