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Lunch was roasted pinecones and elm bark flour noodles.
Zhao Lin had gathered the pinecones the day before. The elm bark flour was made by grinding corn and grain husks into a powder, creating a coarse meal to stave off hunger.
This coarse meal had poor viscosity and wouldn’t form a dough with just water. It had to be mixed with ground elm bark to be made into something edible.
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