Coon4492
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Are these useful for anything? just wondering because theres millions of them around the property
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#1 - make flour. Most recipes call for adding a certain percentage of acorn flour to wheat flour - this would be right on for homesteading/back to the land but then you're getting away from the primitive as we teach. The Abos certainly didn't have wheat flour to mix it with.
“It” states that flour/acorns for eating must be leached (rinsed) in water to remove the bitter tannins - tannic acid, remember? My understanding is that certain species require more than others (white oaks vs. black, etc.).
We have used white oak acorns - some leached more than others - some not at all - and have ground into flour using stone metates and buckskin for the leaching. It did “ruin” (change) the buckskins by making them stiff and mostly unusable but we did reuse them. I have pics & video somewhere of this process and if I happen to cross paths with the pics I'll load 'em up.
We made ash cakes from this and they were fine but we appreciated it more using it as a thickener for soups'n'stews.
The caps of the acorns can be used for bearing block with bow drill.
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Quote: Originally Posted by "prariewolf"
The caps of the acorns can be used for bearing block with bow drill.
WOW! That must be a mighty big acorn and a strong one too. LOL
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Some of the larger ones are maybe an inch or slightly more across. We've done so with some smaller but they're tougher to work with - not as much in hand - tho there's not a lot in hand with the largest. Also we've had students place one in the other for added support/cushion. The outer one (in hand) will crack. Just happened that my brother in law came up with that one. I thought he was nuts at first.
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