2/16/2024 0 Comments Acorn flour cakeI admit, in all my life, growing up around oak trees, I never gave it a thought. My grandson asked if these nuts were eatable. Today, along with my grandchildren, we set out to rake them up and put into the compost pile so yard maintenance could be tended to. Year after year the oak trees in my yard drop a gazillion of acorns into the ground. Today I baked cookies with the flour I processed but in the weeks ahead I will be trying a variety of other ways to use this luscious flour and still leave plenty acorns behind for the critters that will be looking for them in the cold winter months ahead. My first year to bake with acorn flour and it will not be my last! The harvest is huge, the process to prepare the flour was easy, though time consuming, and the flavor reminded me much of chestnut flour. That all changed today for me as I spent time with my grandchildren, foraging a huge bucket of acorns, one of the largest crops of acorns I have seen in my yard in quite some time, and turned them into cookies! Acorns Acorn Flour While acorns, from the oak tree, play an important role in forest ecology and are depended on by a wide variety of natures wildlife for sustenance, they are not widely known to us humans as an embraced nut in the culinary world. Roasted Acorn Flour Cookies are nutty, foraged, and in your backyard, roasted acorns turned into flour for the most delicious cookies.
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