[Sca-cooks] Rape Seed Oil, Canola Oil, and the Early Norse

[Honour Horne-Jaruk]

Respected friend:
--- On Thu, 4/25/13, Terri Morgan <online2much at cox.net> wrote:

> It appears that a certain amount of extraction was possible
> by crushing
> source and collecting the runoff. This made me curious about
> the possible
> use of flax seeds, as the seeds could be harvested before
> the flax was
> retted to make fibre for cloth.
 
> Hrothny
 Unfortunately, flak plants left in the field until the seed ripens produce much lower quality fiber. The best comes from plants pulled while in flower. Until recently, only enough plants were set to seed to produce enough seeds for next year's crop.

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