[Sca-cooks] RE: Acorns

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Acorns are best known as pig food. You drive your hogs into the woods to
> eat acorns, and then send out the teenaged boys to round them up when
> it's butchering time. There is a plate in Tres Riches Heures showing the
> pigs being herded- December, I think. For people to be eating them would
> indicate serious hardship.

Yes, there are references in the middle ages to acorns etc being eaten
during famines.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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