date:Jun 09, 2013
fuel their own troops. Accounts from American prisoners of war, who were also fed the bread, refer to a recipe that included rye grains, sugar beets, sawdust and minced tree leaves or straw.
And elsewhere in the theater of war, during the Siege of Leningrad, increasingly starved residents turned to yeast soup, a concoction made from a powder derived from fermented birch sawdust.
There are differences, however, between these foods of desperation and the powdered starch thats created via the Vir