cat tails?

[nbtrapper]

does anyone know if you can make sugar and flour out of cattails?
i heard they have a very high sugar content in the spring or something.
thanks

matt

[TRAPnHUNT]

I dont know about making sugar or flour from it but I do cut some young cat tails, dice them up and throw it in a salad.

[Admin]

Same as downhome. Never heard of the sugar but flour can be made from them. I tried cattail roots years ago, wasn't really impressed with them.

[watershedman25]

We never ate them, we let them dry and soak in diesel fuel, stick them in the river bank and fish for hrs., makes a pretty nice torch.