Is there any use for acorns except for obviously growing another tree.?

Question

Have tried cooking them in various ways but did not taste good even as a vidaloo curry. Garden is full of them & do not like to throw them away. Tried making them into jewelly & people said they looked like acorns on a bit of string & would not buy them etc, etc etc.

Answer 1

The caps make a great whistle if you hold it flat and blow into it. It also is edible. It is said that white oak is the best for food. However, you can use any variety - just leach until tannic Acid is at a desirable level.
Acorns can easily be processed into nutritious flour. First they must be shelled. A fist sized rock works great as a nutcracker. After I shell them I like to crush the acorn meats into smaller pieces before boiling. This allows the tannic acid to be leached out more quickly.
Take the shelled, crushed acorn meats and put them into a pot of already boiling water. As the acorns boil the water will become discolored. When the water is dark brown (every ten minutes or so of boiling), strain out the acorn meats and switch them to another pot of already boiling water. Continue this process until the nutmeats no longer taste bitter. I generally do 3 or 4 water changes. The amount of boiling you do will vary depending on your acorns and your patience. I've made sweet tasting acorn bread with acorn meal that still had some bitterness to it. Experiment.
When switching the acorns from one pot of water to another, make sure the water is boiling before adding the acorns. Switching the acorns from boiling water to cold water seems to lock in the bitterness. When most of the bitterness is gone from the nutmeats, the meats can be crushed into a meal or mush. The wet meal can be used right away in a bread recipe, or dried and stored as flour is. It will keep as long as flour does if kept dry.
I mix a lighter flour such as cattail or wheat flour with the acorn meal when making bread. Acorn flour is heavy and the bread may fall apart if not made of a mixture of flours. White flour, corn flour, and soy flour all will do.
Another way to leach out tannins from acorns is to put them in a mesh sack and leave them in a running stream for a week or so. The length of time and results will vary depending on the acorns, the water temperature and flow rate, and other factors.
If you use the boiling method don't throw away the brown water. This water is a tannic acid solution that has a variety of uses. It can be used as a dye for clothing. When used this way it needs a fixer or the color will fade after washing. The tannic acid can also be used as a laundry detergent. Put a couple of cups of the solution in each load of wash. It cleans well, and the clothing will smell great, but it will color whites a slightly tan color.
The solution is antiviral and antiseptic. It can be used as a skin wash for rashes, skin irritations, burns, poison ivy, cuts, etc. It can be gargled for sore throats or taken as a mild tea for diarrhea and dysentery, or used externally on hemorrhoids. Store jars of tannic acid solution in jars in the refrigerator. If mold forms on top after time, the solution can be reboiled to kill the mold and stored again.
Animal hides can be tanned more easily by soaking them in the tannic acid from the acorns. Hide tanning is the process of making a raw animal skin into a comfortable, pliable, durable piece of clothing. The use of the boiled brown acorn water in producing "tanned" hides is why we call this water tannic acid.
I've used the following basic acorn bread recipe often. I've also varied it quite a bit depending on the availability of ingredients. Some of the most delicious acorn bread I've made has been using only acorns, syrup, flour, and water. Good Luck.

ACORN BREAD
2 cups acorn flour
2 cups cattail or white flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup maple syrup or sugar
1 egg
½ cup milk
3 tablespoons olive oil
Bake in pan for 30 minutes or until done at 400 degrees
Using the ingredients given above will produce a sweet, moist, nutty bread. The ingredients can be varied to produce different types of bread or muffins or pancakes, etc. Acorn bread is highly nutritious. It has an energy giving combination of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. John Muir called dry acorn cakes "the most compact and strength giving food" he had ever used. I use maple syrup from the trees in my woods instead of sugar. Not only do I enjoy the wild beauty and fiery colors of the maples and oaks that surround my farm, but I also savor the sweet acorn bread made from their nuts and sap. What better way is there to get to know the trees than to live under them and eat from their bounty?

Answer 2

Why DONT you plant them? Buy a hundred pots and see how many you can grow to saplings.

Plant them and leave your legacy behind for your great grandchildren to climb in and wonder about what to do with all the acorns too.

Oak trees are BEAUTIFUL and so slow growing we could lose them before we have chance to replace them!

Reduce your acorns and your 'Diamond Bootprint' in one easy go!

Answer 3

They make fantastic Xmas decorations, just take a twig full of them and spray paint the whole lot gold, I often use it on the dining room table around Xmas time as well as on Xmas gifts!
Also, you can make interesting die-cuts and patterns from them, just put them down on a plain piece of paper and spray over them lightly top show the outline, then cut ouyt the paper where the acorns were (or the negative space around them) for wall decals or paintwork.
I love them, they're great!

Answer 4

Acorns are a major food source for wildlife, Deer, Turkeys, Squirrels, GroundSquirrels, Jay Birds, a lot of animals eat them and they store well for winter use, even cattle eat them.

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Answer 6

They can be cooked, but there's a bit of prepping you have to do first. Put the hulled acorns in a bucket, or large pan. Add enough water to cover the acorns, but the more the better. Soak them over night and pour out the water. Add more water (you might have to soak them a bit). You want to keep doing it until the water is clear. I've never had to do it 3 times. This yellow is tannin and gives it the bitter taste. After that you can grind them into flour.

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

squirrel bait. Squirrels taste better than the acorns.

Answer 10

Squirrel food