SC - Acorns

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- Par Leijonhufvud <parlei at algonet.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 ChannonM at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > I will endeavor to serve acorns at every cooking
> activity I do.....
> 
> You have a period recipie for them! Want!
> 
> BTW, I am told that if you put them in a mesh bag
> and put them in the
> tank of your toilet -- úsing no "sanitizer" stuff,
> of course -- they
> will be leached in a few weeks with no effort. Just
> don't tell your
> guest that "you rinsed them in the toilet". Me, I
> tend to anchor the bag
> in a suitable stream and leave them there for a
> while.
> 
> /UlfR
> 
> -- 
> Par Leijonhufvud                                    

I recently looked up acorns in the "Oxford Companion
of Food".  Unfortunately, the book is at home and I am
at work.  However, IIRC, it talked about a variety of
acorn from the holly oak in Spain that a person could
eat without leaching.  Also, while OCOF agreed with
everyone's opinion that in England during period
acorns were only eaten during famines because of the
tannin problem, it quoted a passage from Cervantes'
"Don Quixote" which mentions that there was a passion
in Spain for eating this particular acorn roasted like
a nut.

Huette

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