![]() ![]() It may seem anachronistic as temperatures linger in the high 90s into September, but hot or not, the acorns have arrived. It had a strong nutty flavor and a rich taste of fall. Eaten plain, the nuts were not very good (my 4-year-old daughter tried one and said, “Mmmm, tastes like a swimming pool”).īut the soup was pretty delicious. I may attempt this as the season progresses.įor my first successful harvest, I instead used boiled nutmeats in an acorn soup recipe by chef Hank Shaw, author of the website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. This is a pretty complicated process, and there’s lots of instruction online. To make acorn flour for baking, cold leaching is the preferred option. ![]() ![]() My nuts were good to eat after four rounds more tannic acorns could require more rotations in the boiling water.Īfter leaching, spread the nuts (they will have turned reddish brown) on a cookie sheet and dry them in a warm oven so they don’t rot.Īccording to Coyne, this is the best leaching technique if you’re eating the acorns as a snack, in soups, or chopped and sprinkled on other food. After the nuts simmered, I strained them in a mesh sieve, rinsed them in hot water and dumped them in the second pot of boiling water for another round. While I waited, I boiled a second pot of water. To leach the tannins, I put my nuts in a pot, filled it with water twice as deep as the nuts, and simmered the nuts for about 15 minutes. This was one of the easier steps for me, though it did make my kitchen smell briefly like a chemical plant. (Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) Boiling the meats of acorns leaches out the tannins that make raw acorns inedible.īoiling is the fastest way to eliminate the tannins, which give the acorn its bitter taste and can make a person sick. If you gather acorns from different types of oaks, try to keep them separate because they might require different degrees of leaching to remove the bitterness. Even after eliminating all the acorns with holes, cracks and other obvious problems, about 75 percent of my stash was infested or decaying.īy comparison, I threw out only about 35 percent of what I collected last week. A lot of the acorns had been on the ground for weeks, and the cream of the crop had been picked over by critters, leaving me with a lot of wormy duds. I started collecting in October last time, and I think that was my fatal error. This little nut holds within it the power to grow into a mighty oak tree. Start collecting now, as the acorns are beginning to fall. The acorn is a symbol of strength and potential. If you don’t have an oak in your yard, you probably won’t have to wander far to find a neighbor’s tree depositing acorns onto the street. a mystery hidden through the agesan acorn waiting to become a mighty oak. Oak trees are all over Utah, with loads of scrub or gambel oaks on the Wasatch benches, which provided my harvest last time. Second, YHWHs prophets themselves did not fully grasp the meaning of all. (Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gambel oaks overlook the Salt Lake Valley. ![]()
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