SC - Double cream

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Lee-Gwen Booth wrote:

> BTW, why does one have to leach acorns?  As a younger person I would eat the
> occasional acorn which I picked up on my way past an oak tree.  Some were
> sweet, some were bitter (like all hell, actually!  They got spat out in fast
> measure - manners not withstanding!).

They are leached to remove things like tannic acid and various other
nasty-tasting chemicals, so you won't have to spit them out. Hmmm. It's
acorn season right now, and the bleak urban wasteland I call my home
street is in fact literally an alley of oak trees. And the leafy boughs
are great in Strong Ale, as per Markham.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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