Reply #4: My grandmother's old cookbook [View All]

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contains a recipe for a peanut-butter-like paste made with ground hemp seeds. It was used as a sandwich spread and as a filling for pirukad, the Estonian version of baked pierogies. The cookbook is written in Estonian and was published in the early 1900s.

I've never tried it; it doesn't sound very appetizing. The hempseed grown at such a northern latitude probably contains little or no THC. It was used strictly for nutritional purposes at a time when food was often scarce and people had to take advantage of whatever edibles they could get.

The Estonian word for hempseed is kanep, their version of the word cannabis. I have no idea if it's used today, but it's probably illegal.