We Found Acorns, Now What Can We Do With Them?
We Found Acorns Falling From the Trees
As we were returning to our car from Thursday Farmer's Market and we found several trees dropping fresh acorns. Surely there's something we can do with these!
We Brought a Bunch Home and Began Opening
There were tricky to open, we found a hammer did a great job to shell the hard shell to get to the "meat".
These Look Good! What Do They Taste Like?
I tried the nut and it was very bitter. We learned that in order to make them useful for eating, they need to be soaked or boiled to remove the tannin. They smell sort of like caramel and taste similar to walnuts, with maybe a dark chocolate bitterness.
We're going to try boiling them to get the bitterness out of them. Then roast them and grind them into flour. We're going to try making acorn pancakes!
Stay tuned for more posts on boiling, baking and grinding acorns!
Bless the Most High!
Never heard about this before! I'm curious about the pancake.
It would be great if you add more benefits about acorns.
Thanks I'll include that in future installments.
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Thank you for your comments! I'll include more about the benefits of acorns in future installments.
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It is so hard
It can let children to play marbles
Cute little child
They really could use acorns as marbles!
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I had bread made from acorns up in Massachusetts years ago. One of the doctors I worked with did a lot of 'wild' food prep. Looked like whole wheat but had a nice semi-sweetness to it. And YES, the tannins will pucker you up if you don't wash it out. Guess turkeys like their food bitter or have lousy taste as they love acorns. Recently met some Natives in AZ (I think Apache) who were gathering acorns to make flour.
I look forward to trying acorn pancakes or bread. Just didn't want to see these beautiful nuts go to waste.
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@ironshield, Sometimes we find natural surprises while we are passing by. Hope that you've enjoyed your hammer time.
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I find acorns to be smashing!
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🙂
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here in germany poor peole made coffee substitute out of them. But Pancakes sounds better ^^
Acorn coffee sounds terrible.
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