[Sca-cooks] Re: Pennsic Hippies

[Peters, Rise J.]

Acorns can be eaten if they are first processed to remove the tannin.
Indians did this by grinding them to flour and then soaking the flour in
several changes of water, after which you could make tasty and high-protein
pancakes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Druighad at aol.com [mailto:Druighad at aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:44 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Pennsic Hippies
>
>
> In a message dated 10/3/01 3:20:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net writes:
>
> << Why thank you, I've always wanted to be called a pansy!
> Johnny-jump-ups
>  are my favorite flowers.
>
>  (I'm not entirely unsure how anyone could be unclear about
> the difference
>  between a war and a tournament now.)
>   >>
>
> Humph. Well, if you want to be known as any kind of flower, I suppose
> Johnny-jump ups are ok, what with their many colored faces.
> But personally I
> would rather be known as a tree. Probably a hawthorne(beware
> the spines!) or
> an old venerable oak. But I don't have the (physical) age to be an old
> venerable oak just yet. So for now a hawthorne it is.
>
> Anyone have any recipes for acorns? I think they were eaten
> at some point,
> but I don't know for sure.
>
> Finnebhir
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