[Sca-cooks] Oak Cakes?

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

>  Brighid ni Chiarain gave a recipe for "oak cakes":
> > 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. 

Period recipes often leave out essential steps that everyone already knows.  :-)

> Otherwise it can be rather bitter. And I think 100 years is a bit 
> excessive on the aging... :-)

Okay -- how many years do you figure it takes for the acorn cakes to mature into oak cakes?



Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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