Working in the yard each year, I always wonder, what the heck can I do with all these acorns. Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of tens of thousands, from about 5 mature oak trees… . And oh, the leaves! If I was obsessed, I could rake every weekend from now until March.
In general, their a pain. They raise the soil acidy, and stain the drive. They can make you slip and slide, get caught all over your car, and bang on the roof.
They’re difficult to use for cooking as they are bitter – though there is supposedly a sweet acorn that Indians used to fight over…. . Until humanity figured out how to get starch from other sources, like wheat.
To use acorns for bread, etc., you have to first leach the tannin’s out of them. Or face constipation, bitter taste and other unpleasantness.
Preparing acorn flour:
http://honest-food.net/2014/10/13/how-to-eat-acorns/
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/clay79.html
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Too bad there aren’t any deer around, they’d take care of those acorns… Or the squirrels would! 🙂 And yes, they are a PITA!
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Yes, I would like that. The deer. Living in the City has drawbacks.
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