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Stayin' Alive by rongo rongo
November 20th, 2011 1:16 PM
I'm already pretty good at plaiting and basket-making. So as my target new post-apocalypse skill, I picked wild food harvest and preparation. November, the Thanksgiving season, is not actually ideal for wild harvest in New England. I went for acorns, couldn't find any here (that weren't already broken and moldy). Luckily, we're not post-apocalyptic yet, so I was able to go harvest some acorns down south. That was only step one, however. (See pictures for the rest of the process.)
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posted by relet 裁判長 on November 20th, 2011 2:32 PM
I like the acorn theory. I have tasted raw young acorn, which was edible by my bitterness standards. But being able to remove the tannins sounds good.
posted by cody on November 20th, 2011 3:44 PM
we do this yearly! try acorn-pumpkin bread, if you're not outrunning an apocalypse. and if you are, i wonder if you could bread some wild squirrel with it?
posted by rongo rongo on November 21st, 2011 1:13 PM
Wow, I didn't know people did this acorn thing. What kind of acorns do you use?
posted by cody on November 21st, 2011 3:46 PM
i'm pretty sure they're called giant mammoth acorns. you have to use a hammer to get the meat out.
Maybe add some tallow from whatever animal you had managed to snare last to hold it all together, or a small egg or two. Might also try wildsourced (since we're talking post-apoc here) rosemary or peppercorns for spice? I'm sure I have a recipe for acorn meal in one of my homesteading books around here.