[Sca-cooks] RE: Acorns

[johnna holloway]

Diamond Randall wrote:
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> recipe in Euell Gibbons' STALKING THE WILD
> ASPARAGUS. Gibbons claims that they were a staple food of
> primitive man in Europe, though he has shown no
> documentation.  Anyone have any?> Akim Yaroslavich
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Besides the actual recipe in the 15th century
Beinecke manuscript (previous message on acorns),
there are references to acorns in Ann Hagen's
volumes on Anglo-Saxon foods. They were commonly
famine foods, so perhaps the extensive literature
connected with famines would give some idea as to
when and where for anyone wanting to document
their consumption. The Beinecke recipe may be the
only documented actual recipe that can be commonly
found.

Johnna Holloway Johnnae llyn Lewis