![]() ![]() ![]() If your nuts are very sweet (sweet means that they are not gawd-awful bitter when raw, only mildly so), try a nibble after three leachings. You don’t need to use a strainer to get every drop, just use the lid and get most of the liquid. Stuff happens.) Pour off the brownish-tinged water. You don’t need to boil the nuts (although there have been times when I’ve gotten distracted and come back to the pot to find it boiling. Cover with cool water and put the lid on. Place the shelled acorn nutmeats into a soup pot. Here are the directions for both methods. But I use the cold water method more often because it’s easier on the planet. I make acorn sweet pickles, so I use the hot water method at least once a year. Most folks have a refrigerator already running, so it doesn’t cost more to use. And hot water leaching uses more natural resources in the form of gas or electricity (or whatever fuel you use to power your stove).Ĭold water processing is more passive. The drawback to using heat is that you wash away many of the oils and starches that make superior baked goods. It’s also useful if your recipe calls for intact nuts, such as pickles. Hot Water processing allows you to get the job done quicker. So which one to use? It depends on how quickly you need flour and what you plan to do with it. Modern day acorn enthusiasts have several options available for processing as well. Some were labor intensive, while others consisted of simply dropping a bag of shelled nutmeats into a stream and letting the running water do the work. Native Americans used several methods to process acorns. And you don’t need to process the nuts to do that. If you have an oil expeller, you can produce a product that’s similar to olive oil. A complete comparison of processed acorns to white flour can be found here: Īcorns are filled with lovely oil. Shelled and leached the nuts are a reliable source of carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals, including calcium and iron, and amino acids. Hopefully, by now you’ve got a little pile of shelled nutmeats and probably feeling a bit like ‘Scat’…īut why go to all this trouble? Acorns, properly prepared are a delicious and nutritional powerhouse. ![]()
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