[Sca-cooks] Oak Cakes?

[Stefan li Rous]

  Brighid ni Chiarain gave a recipe for "oak cakes":
> On 13 Oct 2004, at 7:20, Pat wrote:
> > Stefan said:
> >> Well, for some more details on oa cakes,
> >
> > To quote Ras, "Recipe, Please."
>
> Take acorns, grind them into meal, then mix with water and salt and 
> form
> into flat cakes.  Let them sit for 100 years, then cook on a griddle.
> Serve hot.
I think you left out the soaking step to leach out the tannins. 
Otherwise it can be rather bitter. And I think 100 years is a bit 
excessive on the aging... :-)

There is also this file which includes the recipe(s) for making ink out 
of oak galls:
inks-msg          (46K)  5/ 3/01    Period and SCA inks for calligraphy.

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