Staple Winter Food

This is the most over looked food, but it is one of the most abundant foods in the wilderness.you will prosper by learning how to use it.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• acorn flour
• gathering nuts
• tannin
• tanic acid
• indian bread

[gwynedd1]

Very nice. I have yet to hot leach and have generally cold leached ground acorn meal with several type which do vary considerably in tannins. Those hot leached nuts seem like a great chili ingredient. I use a davebilt nut cracker which shells a bushel in minutes.I really like making a 50/50 wheat acorn flour flat bread with just a little salt and oil mixed with water for a great variety of things.

[trapperjacksurvival]

@gwynedd1 thx i prefer the cold leach method but the three week working time is more of a home practice, hot methos i use for survival travel.

[AtScrysTV2]

how did you find a rock that had a hole in it like that?

[trapperjacksurvival]

@AtScrysTV2 that one was native american made. 

[FLYN95]

can you use any species of acorn?

can you use dried acorns?

[trapperjacksurvival]

@FLYN95 Big and bitter Small and sweet is the rule with acorns, all can be used even dried.

[AlmightyScubba]

Subscribed at 0:56. This is great!

[BoJoMo47]

Are acorns usually still good to eat in late winter (like right now) if you can still find them?

[davids11131113]

Nice info!

[2Bibleppl]

Can the dark water from the acorn be used for a wood dye? I'm looking for something natural to stain my floors with that has little or no toxic smell. Thanks

[wmarcus1203]

Great video!

[phrankus2009]

You want the water at a rolling boil before you put the acorns into it, and you want to have another pot of boiling water standing by, for the next round of leeching and transfer the acorns immediately into the fresh, boiling water. ... ... Otherwise, the tannins will bind to the starch and the process will cease or, at least, be much less efficient and complete.

[H95Shooterv12]

what i can remember on that is get new water when it looks like my chaw spit

[gawletap]

You place the acorns in the water only when the water is boiling, otherwise you will never get rid of the bitter flavour, due to the starch in the acorns binding with the tannic acid

[naanaa1111]

@JaniceParton yes, I would like to know what to do with those pesky critters too. :)

[JaniceParton]

I have a very lrg black walnut tree that is loaded this year. What would you do with black walnuts?