2006-08-27 14:28:45 · 19 answers · asked by roolson73 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
White settlers, of course, never learned to tap the rich store of nutrients contained in these kernels (perhaps because they had no patience for the laborious grinding and leaching processes that were necessary to make the nuggets edible), and-as a result-acorns (as food for humans) went out of style in the U.S. around the turn of the century.
And yet-appreciated by modern man or not-acorns (millions of tons of them each year) go on growing and dropping to the ground . . . not just in California (where the shiny kernels are so plentiful in the fall that the natural population of jays, squirrels, and chipmunks can't even begin to eat them all), but in the rest of the country, too. What a shame more people don't recognize this yearly bumper crop for the excellent source of nutrition that it is!
You can take advantage of some of this free bounty for yourself. It's a simple matter to harvest a season's supply of acorns, process them into a coarse, meal-like flour, and adapt the flour to your favorite bread, muffin, and cake recipes. acorn-meal dishes are so rewarding (in taste, nutrition, and sheer fun)
2006-08-27 14:33:00 · answer #1 · answered by sexylittlemisstweetybird83 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yep, eats um all the time...they tend to get binding after the third or fourth bag of um.
Good cooked up in a kettle of posum gizzard! Good eats.
2006-08-27 21:34:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They have bitter tannins that have to be boiled or soaked away. The tannins will make you ill. I suggest looking it up further online. With proper preparation they are edible.
2006-08-27 21:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Joyce T 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yeah, they're no different then any other nut, though they need to be boiled before eaten and removed from the shell.
2006-08-27 21:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by Josh 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I actually thought they were poisonous to humans...Hmmm...the others say they are not...
whynt you try a few and let us know how you feel, okay?
2006-08-27 21:32:48 · answer #5 · answered by Munya Says: DUH! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why? Are u trying to get a nut?
2006-08-27 21:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by Delete System32 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess if you were hungry enough you could, don't think they would taste to good.
2006-08-27 21:31:52 · answer #7 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but you HAVE to cook them first.
2006-08-27 21:31:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.I have only seen squirrels eat them.
2006-08-27 21:32:48 · answer #9 · answered by FELINELOVER 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the minute u pick one up a million squriles will attack from the trees and tackle u for the nut. then they will #@$#@$ up #$@#!!!!!!!!
2006-08-27 21:36:21 · answer #10 · answered by septboy19 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋