Archive for November, 2009
Steps to Make Acorn Flour
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
- A bowlful of red oak acorn flour
“Have you nothing better to do with your time?” my friend, a botany professor remarked. I had told him I was setting out to make flour from my myriad of acorns in the yard. I know about many plant uses, but my first hand experience doesn’t cover this endeavor. I blogged about acorn uses previously, so I decided to take that beautiful bowl of acorns and pulverize them into flour. So, I’ll share the process, which can be done in bits and pieces in between a busy schedule. (more…)
Acorn Pancakes
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
The question is, was all the work worth the effort? Making red oak acorn flour was about a week-long project. A few minutes of collecting, an evening of digging out nutmeat, a few days of leaching, a few days of drying, and with the help of a food processor, a quick job of grinding the nutmeat into flour. I decided to see what the final product tasted like in the form of pancakes. (more…)