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Title: My roof has been pummeled by acorns for weeks
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Published: Sep 15, 2015
Author: Chuck
Post Date: 2015-09-15 12:32:26 by Chuck_Wagon
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The oak trees are out of control... 
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#3. To: Chuck_Wagon (#0)
(1) If you're getting them this year, you won't have them next year (usually a two-year cycle). (2) Collect them, crack them, soak the kernels, pour off the water, soak again and pour off. (3) Roast. They're bitter if you don't soak them, but they're reasonably ok if you do.
Not only are they bitter, but they will probably make you sick as hell from the tannins. I once made some acorn flour as an experiment. I boiled the acorn kernels a couple of times. I then let the kernels dry, and pulverized them. I made pancakes with the flour. They weren't bad at all. I'd probably never do it again. It's just too much trouble.
Horses die from eating acorns. People with normally operating taste buds just won't eat enough to kill them: it's too hard. Crack 'em, soak 'em twice - roast 'em or grind 'em into flour and cook them as hotcakes, and eat em. The Cree lived on them as their grain. The Apache made a stew of them. If you take acorns (duly soaked) and you cook them up with meat and fat and vegetables, it's nutritious. If you have an oak tree, a maple tree, a pine tree (NOT hemlock or yew!), and the weeds that grow around them, you're a long way from starvation - and that's without eating any bugs. You get acorns from the oak: that's flour. Bland but nutritious. You get beans from the maple spinners. They're not unlike edamame, though smaller, and they're nutritious like green beans. You make pine needle tea from the pine needles. Just a cup of that and you have the equivalent of three oranges' Vitamin C. This is not a delightful diet, but if you've got big trees around, there's usually something edible from them, and whatever that "something" is, the tree has it in large quantities. Of course, if you're not living in a zombie apocalypse, getting your pancakes from Aunt Jemimah, your minerals from French green beans (with butter), and your Vitamin C from oranges is really much tastier. The Cree and Apache still have the oaks growing, but they have Aunt Jemimah in their cupboards too. Some natural foods (blackberries, raspberries, salmon, morels, corn) are wonderful. Others...well...they'll keep you alive. Acorns will help keep you alive. They DO make a very tonic tea. Not to drink. Soak those acorns and take that dark tannin water, and soak your boils and wounds in it...and you will find that it speeds healing dramatically. Oh, and pine needle tea - THAT can be really good. At Christmas, take a handful of your white pine Christmas tree and pour boiling water on it. Let it steep and put in a touch of honey. It is stronger than a Hall's cough drop, and really very, very refreshing. And it makes you feel closer to your tree, and makes it seem like less of a waste. Also, it really strengthens you against getting colds.
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#6. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
They're bitter if you don't soak them, but they're reasonably ok if you do.
#11. To: no gnu taxes (#6)
Not only are they bitter, but they will probably make you sick as hell from the tannins.
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