addendum: acorn-meal crepes!

[asakiyume]

Also tasty ;-)

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[sartorias]

Mentally adding butter and real maple syrup...yummers!

[asakiyume]

That would be VERY DELICIOUS!

[smoothbores]

I can ask what the bread and pancakes taste like. Please.

[asakiyume]

The taste of both pleasantly nutty but not very distinctive and not very strong.

When I made acorn cake some time ago, the flavor seemed stronger. It could be that I leached the acorn meal for too long. (You need to let it sit in changes of water for several days to get the tannins out, but maybe this time I did it for too long.)

[smoothbores]

Thank you very much for the detailed answer. I didn't know that you had to soak it in water.

I have plans to make another monastery bread. And maybe in the fall I'll try to make an acorn supplement.
I wanted to say - that's why I'm so curious. But I'm always curious)

[asakiyume]

If you would like to try to process acorns, I recommend Hank Shaw's page--he's who I used as a guide. Link here.

[smoothbores]

Oh, thank you very much! I've already read it, it's all very clear, I only need a little of this flour, so it can be done quickly.
The advice to grind with water is common in our kitchen, I didn't expect that it would be used with acorns. So great!
Thanks for the link!

[asakiyume]

My pleasure ^_^

[pameladean]

Wow! Do these contain the same proportion of wheat flour to acorn meal, or does it need to be different for crepes?

They look delicious.

P.

[asakiyume]

With the bread, I used three parts wheat flour to one part acorn meal, but these were half and half! I followed a recipe for buckwheat crepes, substituting in acorn meal for the buckwheat.

[rebeccmeister]

Just by appearance they reminded me of making buckwheat crepes, how funny! They look like they came out fantastically, and I love this idea. Hooray!

[sovay]

addendum: acorn-meal crepes!

Nice! What's the flavor like?

[asakiyume]

It felt pleasantly nutty and whole-grain-y, but not as distinctive as the acorn cake I made earlier in the year. Delicious! But not distinctive in the way the cake was.

[osprey_archer]

Gorgeous! Did you eat them plain or with toppings?

[asakiyume]

We ate them with savory fillings--two different types of salsa, plus cheese. (We had them for dinner)

[genarti]

Oooooh, these look delicious and also fascinating! I've been wanting for ages to try more (read: any) acorn-meal things. One of these days maybe I'll follow up on foraging enough to try it. In the meantime, I'll live vicariously by admiring these!

[asakiyume]

This pasts autumn was a great time to try because there were SO MANY acorns--but really, you could/will be able to collect plenty any autumn ^_^ When you're ready.

[rachelmanija]

Jealous.

[asakiyume]

YOU LIVE WHERE THE DELICIOUS ACORNS ARE. YOU CAN DO THIS!

[radiantfracture]

What a cool thing! We have an anthropology colleague who has students gather acorns, but I don't think they get as far as the meal.

[asakiyume]

I enjoy the process, but it does take time. I was saying to my husband that I'd like to find a way to do it more efficiently--make a bigger mortar for (a) dislodging the outer shells and then (b) for grinding, and maybe try drying them out in the sun instead of in the oven. The risk is that they'd go moldy if I didn't have consecutive days of good sun.

[smokingboot]

These look delicious!

[asakiyume]

And they were--the acorn meal worked great!

[minoanmiss]

Beautiful and tasy!

[asakiyume]

They were a real treat!

[anna_wing]

How fascinating! I've made castagnaccio with chestnut flour, but I've never seen acorn flour for sale commercially.

[asakiyume]

My instincts tell me it isn't available? But now you've made me wonder: perhaps it is!

[athenais]

i would love to try acorn bread or crepes--I've never tasted acorn carbohydrates! The salsa and cheese combo sounds like it would be ideal with the nutty taste.

[asakiyume]

It was so good!

Maybe acorns will become a thing. It would be great if they did!

[wayfaringwordhack]

Bon appétit! The word for acorn in French is gland (the "d" isn't pronounced, but I still can't help saying it in my head when I read it--not hear or speak it), and isn't it funny how that can change the way you look at or think about an acorn?

[asakiyume]

Hahahahaha! That does do a little something for how I look at an acorn 😆