[Sca-cooks] acorns

[otsisto]

I have heard that there are certain varieties of oak that are not bitter. I
am familiar with the NA processes and use of acorns and they to mention a
specific oak that is not as bitter as others but the book I was reading
stated that the Basque ate acorns.
The acorn starch information comes from the fact that I can purchase it at a
local Orient Store. I have yet to try it in a recipe.

Lyse

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Acorn flour tends to be rather bitter unless it is soaked for a while
and the bitterness leached out. Acorns seem to have been more common
among the American Indians than among the Europeans, other than in
times of starvation. I have though seen some indication that some?
European acorns were not as bitter as others, and perhaps those are
from the oaks you are talking about.

For some more info on acorns, see this Florilegium file in the FOOD
section:
nuts-msg         (116K)  9/11/04    Nuts, acorns, nut flours in
medieval foods.

If anyone has some additional info about acorns being used in period,
I'd love to hear about it.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****


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