In fact, you can really grind elm bark into powder, mix it with sorghum powder and corn flour and cook it. But few people eat it now. After all, people's living standards have improved a lot. It's easy to eat a bowl of sticky noodles, and the taste of elm bark ground noodles is really bad. If it is a modern person, it should be difficult to swallow. We can still hear this story because the older generation told us to cherish the present and remember the painful experience.

In the countryside, I often hear some old people say that when I was young, I used to grind elm bark to eat. For me at that time, I really didn't believe that elm bark was so rough and dry that it could be eaten after grinding. Maybe it's a lie. Later I learned that this is actually true.

In the past, people's living standards were relatively low and their lives were relatively hard, especially in rural areas. Although farmers planted crops, most of them sold them after harvest, leaving only a little. At that time, the rural pasta was mainly sorghum flour and corn flour, which were relatively loose and not as soft and sticky as wheat flour. Therefore, most people who can eat wheat flour at ordinary times are wealthy families, so farmers at that time thought of a way to grind elm bark into powder and cook it with these sorghum flour and corn flour to make these noodles as sticky as wheat flour. As for the taste, I feel very bad.

Modern living standards have improved a lot, and people have lived a relatively affluent life. Eating a bowl of wheat flour is no longer a luxury, so it is hard to eat in rural areas when someone grinds elm bark to cook noodles. It takes a long time to grind it into powder. If it's not fine enough, it's hard to swallow. In addition, elm bark is cooked into noodles, and you will know what it tastes like if you think about it a little. Anyway, I think the taste is terrible and unpalatable.