acorns

[Johnnie Appleseed]

You ever used acorns for food?
i have but one french recipe for an acorn pastry.

[Silver Ether]

no.... but I had thought about it this year ... can't find any ...

[frozenthunderbolt]

Acorns from the eddible oak can be roasted and eaten like chestnuts or you can turn them into flour.
Apparently they also make a good and very filling jelly rather like tofu - cant say i have ever eaten it.
As a younger kid i ate small numbers of normal acorns while at college - shudder to think what the tanninn in them did to me lol

[Johnnie Appleseed]

never heard about the edible oak. how do you recognize it?
For the pastry recipe, you need to boil the pealed acorns about six times with water to make them edible.

[frozenthunderbolt]

try googleing it. but they are an evergreen species of Oak Tree. leaves are a little spikey.
I'll c if i can scientific name for you if you want

[Millymollymandy]

I've got millions of normal acorns but I'll leave them for the jays and squirrels!