SC - Re: Pennsic Tales

[Olwen the Odd]

The boyscout manual has the recipe(S) for bread etc.  They also give a good 
discription on which type of acorn is best to use (I think it's the long 
one) because it's not so bitter.  Weird how I came to read a boy's book at a 
tender age..
Olwen


>From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Re: Pennsic Tales
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:39:43 -0400
>
>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
>--
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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