Title: Acorn Flour
Categories: Amerind Bread Info
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Lee Peterson, Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Although a few white oaks have acorns sweet enough to be eaten raw or roasted, most oaks have extremely bitter acorns. Happily, the bitterness is due to an abundance of tannin which is readily soluble in water. Whole kernels, stripped of their shells and boiled in repeated changes of water until the water no longer turns brown, can be roasted and eaten as nuts or dipped in sugar syrup and eaten as candy. Dried and crushed acorns can be placed in porous bags and put through same boiling process to remove the tannin. They can then be redried, ground into meal, and used to make excellent breads and muffins. Rich in protein and fat.

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