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  • Cooking with acorns?

    Has anyone tried this?

    i've seen special tumblers in car boot sales over here which were made during WW2 specifically for roasting acorns as a coffee substitute. Modern day use tends to be roasting chestnuts in them.

    I spotted this newspaper article the other day and it got me thinking....

    https://www.theguardian.com/environm...next-superfood

    what do they taste like roasted...Have they got to be fully brown first or can they be cooked whilst still green?
    ...anyone been brave enough ( or old enough) to know?
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    This looks like an interesting site!
    https://honest-food.net/foraging-recipes/acorn-recipes/
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      Is rare to find an oak tree round here... let us know how you get on!
      V.P.
      The thing I grow best are very large slugs!

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      • #4
        My garden's full of acorns that are splitting and germinating as we speak. Fortunately, the Jays and pigeons have found them.........as have the little beastie that's hiding them in the GH.
        I've never been tempted to eat them - too much faff for me.

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        • #5
          One I prepared earlier............years earlier https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ear_75475.html

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Vegi potager View Post
            Is rare to find an oak tree round here... let us know how you get on!
            I want an unsuspecting subject to try it first!
            "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

            Location....Normandy France

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Nicos View Post
              This looks like an interesting site!
              https://honest-food.net/foraging-recipes/acorn-recipes/
              Looks like an American site, maybe different species, our acorns are close to inedible, all right for feeding pigs, beech mast is a better prospect. During the second world war acorns were roasted and used as a coffee substitute, very bitter and not that nice I was told by a relative.

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