SHAMAN SALAD

You are in Finland in Kainuu, and you here the" Shaman drums".The snow has recently disappeared from the forests and the first plants and flowers emerge from the ground.You see white flowered  Wood Sorrels, crispy leaved green Sorrels, a big stack of forest ants and in wet places white trunk birches carrying inside valuable sap.Now we have seen the places where to collect our ingredients for the ethnic food peculiarity.
Ingredients:
White Wood Sorrel flowers 100ml (Oxalis acetosella) ,contains oxalic acid.
Fresh young Sorrel leaves 200ml (Rumex acetosella), contains oxalic acid.Rich in vitamin-C.
1 fresh, thin , peeled birch stick (Betula pendula) for to collect ant secretion.
Fresh birch sap direct from the tree (Betula pendula) 50ml.Rich in potassium.
Secretion from the stack ants (Formica rufa), contains formic acid.
Some drops wild flower honey..
Wet well the birch stick with sap and put it in an ant stack.After 5 minutes clean the stick from biting ants and squeeze with a hard tool the secretion out of the stick  in a mortar . Add the honey and sap and blend well.
Tear the Sorrel leaves and mix with the flowers.Sprinkle the the sap juice over the leaves and shake.
Serve with Kainuu flat bread cheese and fresh sap.
Warning! Wood Sorrel and Sorrel, if eaten often affects in calcium metabolism.

CHEF THOR