Acorns: The Grain That Grows on Trees

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September/October 1984
By David Bainbridge 
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Combine the dry ingredients and work in the shortening—adding water as necessary—until the mixture is the consistency of pie dough. Then roll the dough into tortillas and fry them in oil or toast them in the oven. These tortillas are great for tacos or tostadas, or just as snack chips.

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PEGGY CARKEET'S ACORN BREAD

1 cup of oil
5 beaten eggs
1-1/4 cups of honey
1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
3-3/4 cups of acorn meal
1-1/8 cups of whole wheat flour
1-1/2 teaspoons of salt
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
1-1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon currants, pine nuts, or elderberries (to taste)

This recipe makes a one-of-a-kind bread that fairly begs to be eaten. Thoroughly mix the first 10 ingredients, then add (to taste) currants, pine nuts, or dried elderberries ...pour the batter into three greased loaf pans ...and bake the bread at 350°F for an hour or more.

EDITOR'S NOTE: TO FIND OUT MORE about acorns and other edible-nut tree crops, you might want to peruse J. Russell Smith's Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (Devin-Adair, 1977), which is out of print but may be available at your local library. Another excellent volume is Nut Tree Culture in North America, edited by Richard A. Jaynes and published by the Northern Nut Growers Association, Inc.

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  • Paul Barthle 9/12/2009 6:13:02 PM

    As an erstwhile hog hunter, I wondered if particularly productive wild oaks could be grafted onto young oak seedlings so that they would then bear sooner and more reliably. I wouldn't suggest a monoculture as in apples or oranges, just a way to improve someone's property more quickly. I had been thinking of this as a way to attract wildlife primarily, but this may be a way to improve depleted farm soils by changing over to intensively rotated pasture land with scattered oak hammocks. CRP nursery, anyone?

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