Leached acorns can also be dried and stored. During the drying process, be sure to stir them daily to keep the grains of acorns from sticking together, otherwise, it forms little “acorn rocks.”
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
Acorns can be leached in a shorter period by other methods, like constant water running through them, but I like to leach them in the refrigerator for at least a week. Leaching large quantities in big bowls or buckets is fine too, but difficult to keep refrigerated.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
What do you think of when you see acorns on the ground? Squirrels? Winter is coming? Time to rake? Making love? Hold on a minute. What have acorns got to do with sexuality? Apparently quite a bit according to some of the old-timers. I read in an old herbal that acorns were good for sexual strength. They listed oats too. Naturalist John Muir is recorded as saying that acorns gave him strength. If he were still around, I’d ask him.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
Onion dip is delicious but throw leached and cooked acorns into the recipe and you’ve got a food treat like you’ve never experienced. It doesn’t take a lot of acorns to impart the flavor. It will though, take some effort gathering, leaching and cooking your acorns. But isn’t that what fall is for? Golden leaves, brown acorns and sports games?
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
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