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[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

When I was in Louisville, KY a few years ago there were acorns on the 
ground in a Park there that were as big as a quarter and 2 inches long. 
I tried eating a couple and they were not half bad. I was amazed at the 
size of them . I have never seen any that big on the east or west coast. 
I don't know what kind of oak it was but the trees were huge, at least 
18 inches at the butt or larger and they seemed to be 150 to 200 feet 
tall. I had no way to measure them.
Sam

Ginda Fisher wrote:

> I have an abundance of acorns this year.  I thought last year was the 
> "on" year, but my white oaks are as productive as ever.
>
> Is there anything I can do with the acorns, other than grinding them 
> to pulp as I drive up and down the driveway?
>
> The tree closest to the driveway has very large nuts:  nearly as big 
> around as a dime, and more than an inch long.  The other two front 
> yard trees have much smaller nuts, more like the ones I grew up with, 
> a bit smaller around and not much longer than wide.  All are 
> prolific.  all are also sprouting right and left, but at least a 
> quarter of the nuts are clean, intact, and unsprouted.  I've gathered 
> a couple of cups of them, and am about to gather some more, mostly 
> just to get them off the driveway.
>
> I'm looking for something relatively easy and useful for a suburban 
> family.  I don't have pigs, and I'd rather not spend 50 hours 
> preparing something that only the starving would eat.  On the other 
> hand, I've tried odd things in the past.  (Grinding eggshells into the 
> pasta to boost the calcium content was not a winner, but adding 
> crandall currants or cranberries to apple pie was.)
>
> I also have some black oak acorns (less prolific this year) and access 
> to red oak acorns, which I find collected on my car when I pick it up 
> at the lot at the end of the day.  Red oak acorns are enormous, and 
> always look tasty to me, but they taste awful.
>
> Thanks,
> Ginda Fisher
> eastern Mass, where fall seems to be here, at least today.
>
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