Maggie explains about her childhood, learning from her mother and grandmothers about collecting, cooking and eating Yalke, also called Bush Onion in the desert country west of Haasts Bluff Mission...
Maggie explains about her childhood, learning from her mother and grandmothers about collecting, cooking and eating Yalke, also called Bush Onion in the desert country west of Haasts Bluff Mission Station. 'We are cooking fire in the bush — we are getting wire and billy can to collect. We find Yalke long time in the sand, biggest mob, rub him in our fingers to get skin off, like onion, fill our billy can, cook him up in the sand. He' s little one (indicates about an inch with fingers). Old people, long time, we been learn. Dreamtime. Sometimes we cook him with rice... tea time.'