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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Acorn recipes?
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:05:45 -0400

So I'm impressed by all the paens to acorns. One of the reasons I can't grow as many fruit trees as I'd like (and the ones that I do grow grow slowly and fruit sparsely) is that I have a lot of mature oak trees on my 1/3 acre, including three bearing white oaks in the front. This year the drought has given us a small crop of small acorns, but last year and two years ago we had bumper crops, and I had to pay the kids to pull up the oak seedlings that sprouted everywhere. Even in a good year, my white acorns are small, but it would be easy to gather a couple of pounds of them in a couple of minutes.

So, I'd love recipes using acorns. I have a blender, I could get a vice grip. After I shell them and blend them and pour off the cloudy water, what do I do with the remaining acorn slurry?

(I have red and black oaks in the back. I've always felt that the raw red acorns taste better than raw white acorns, although in both cases you need to wait for the bitter flavor to subside to taste anything else. I may experiment with them, too.)

Thanks,
Ginda




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