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  • From: "Bassem Samaan" <bassem@gardener.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Unusual Flavored Acorn
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:33:46 -0500

I'm growing an unusual oak that looks more like a holly than oak. It's Quercus Coccifera, I collected the Acorns from the mountains of Lebanon. The Acorns are very large, tasting somewhat like Chestnuts when roasted. I'm growing the seedlings in pots currently, I will test them out in my area by next year once they get a bit larger.

Bass in Zone 6, Pa

----- Original Message -----
From: "hector black"
To: "North American Fruit Explorers"
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Unusual Flavored Acorn
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:14:40 -0500


We've found leaching of the Turkey oak (Q acutissima) to be fairly easy.
Quarter, peel, put in blender with water to cover. When no large pieces
remain, put in bowl or bucket with as much water as possible and pour the
water off for two or three days whenever you think of it - well, every 4-5
hours or so. We dried ours on our basement wood furnace, but an oven would
work. Very tasty. Hector Black, zone 6, middle TN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Tolle"
To: ; "North American Fruit Explorers"

Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:13 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Unusual Flavored Acorn


> Folks,
>
> I'm not as serious about acorns as I'd like to be (I've never been
> able to leach them properly) but I still try them on occasion. Today I
> found a unique acorn, in my experience. Although it was a medium
> astringency acorn it had a very strong vanilla-ish flavor to it that
> stayed in my mouth slightly longer than the tannic acid. Has anyone else
> experienced unusual tasting acorns like this before?
>
> I'll try several other acorns from this tree, if I can to confirm
> that it is tree-wide. Too bad about the astringency. It would be
> interesting to see if this vanilla-ish flavor leaches out with the
> tannic acid.
>
>
> Geoffrey Tolle
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