Has anyone ever cooked/eaten acorns?

[selfraising]

I was always led to believe that acorns were poisonous but recently found a recipe for acorn flour. Has anyone every tried them and if so what do they taste like?

[FionaH]

Didn't druids use them for hallucinagens? (sp?)

Some one smart will be along with a sensible answer soon hon

[Nicos]

They were eaten a lot here during the war.
You can buy roasters still to turn infront of an open fire. They're mostly used for chestnuts now- but if you ask an 'oldie' what the contraption is- they all say it's for roasting acorns

Interesting facts.....
Eating Unusual Nuts: Roasting Acorns, Black Walnuts and Butternuts - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

I'll post a piccie if I can find one!

[Snadger]

Is that not what ersatz coffee was made from?

[Polly Fouracre]

I believe you have to bury them in soil for a while to get rid of the bitterness. I'll look it up in a book I have.

[bearded bloke]

Thanks for that link Nicos now I know why they taste terrible raw,tried one in my youth but the only tannin I had heard of when that young was what you got if caught being naughty

In Korea, an edible jelly named dotorimuk is made from acorns and Dotori guksu are Korean noodles made from acorn flour or starch.

taken from .... Acorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[bearded bloke]

I'll post a piccie if I can find one!

If you can find an old one sell it in America ........

Antique 18th C Brass Chestnut Roaster with Wrought Iron Handle from owensantiques on Ruby Lane

[chris]

I'm sure ray mears ate them didn't he?

[Two_Sheds]

Interesting thread.

I gaggled how to process acorns

then you can pickle them

[Flummery]

But why would you? You'd have to be fairly clemmed to even try!

[Brengirl]

If you eat them do you think you can fly?

[selfraising]

Interesting link TS, I'm almost tempted to try the pickling

[binley100]

I'm sure ray mears ate them didn't he?

probably, he eats just about anything else .........

[Madasafish]

I have drunk acorn coffee. Once.

Bitter.

[snakeshack]

At the risk of being ridiculed.......If you peel and slightly crush/break acorns and soak overnight in a big pan of water then strain in the morning this removes most of the tannin,then heat over the fire/gas stove in a pan so they roast to a light chocolate brown.
crush small and add to 50:50 mixture of milk /water and boil,strain&add sugar to taste,tastes like a cross between bad coffee and good hot chocolate.Rather an aquired taste,but have made it with scouts on backwoods weekends 6-7 times (nobody died yet)