As per an anthropology course I took at CCNY, there were Sacramento Indians (CA). They were told to move one day. The army/Calvary came back to move them. Every trace of this tribe was gone...they supposedly were never seen again. This tribe worshiped the acorn, ate it, etc. The acorn to them supposedly represented life. Their houses had a 15' -20' diameter roof supported by vertical poles around the circumference & in the center, no walls. The roof was peaked at the center. I've tried to research the Sacramento Tribe but cannot find anything about them.
True story: My recommended list has this video right next to a snobby British guy talking about how millionaires customize their Rolls Royces. At least UA-cam got this one right for me.
I live in West central Wisconsin and the acorns were HUGE, but I've never seen acorns as big as the ones in your video! Where on earth do you live??!!!!!
I live in Arkansas and we have red and white oak trees on our property and the deer and squirrels love them and I only tried eating them once and the bitter taste stopped me from eating any more. We also have hickory and black walnut trees and when growing up ate plenty of them and since retiring have thought of eating them again since we have so many trees and plenty of nuts on them. I will try eating the acorns again and this time make sure only the good part is kept and thanks for sharing this information on how to save them.
I remember reading somewhere that Native Americans would sit a basket of acorns in a clean flowing stream. I assume this was to remove the tannic acid.
If I remember correctly, from my Boy Scout's of America handbook, the acorns must be placed in a basket and running water washed through the baskets in a series of washings. Or the acorns must be boiled until the tannin in the acorns are removed. All of this is necessary to get rid of the tannin inorder to make a acorn breadstuff. Tannin can be used to make a remedy for a headache.
Two things stand out for me: 1- those are some huge nuts. 2- I did a double-take on those plates... I have the same set -- Corelle -- and it's a discontinued pattern. And FWIW, I actually collected some acorns this fine October afternoon.
I never knew there were bigger acorns, out there!! I thought they were all "squirrel size"! And did not know, you could make flour, out of acorns...I would actually pay, to try this, as I alas, don't have the patience to do something like this, lol!
There was one tree down the road hat produced these huge white acorns. Then a developer came and clear cut the land to put up a housing development. Now all we have left in the area is small red and white acorns.
I am a senior gent that grew up in Arkansas. I was never able to get past the first bite of an acorn due to the awful bitter taste. I often wondered how animals could eat them. Interesting video.
You have some HUGE acorns there! What sort of oak tree produces them? Out here in Calif, we use mostly black oak and white oak acorns. We sometimes use the golden oak acorn too, but they are much harder to pound. Water oak acorn are big, like yours, but they don't thicken up into mush on cooking.
Last year I had a bumper crop of white acorns and so I collected a whole bunch. They ended up getting mold so I threw them back out into the yard. Next time I will shell them first. Thanks for the tip!
I have been considering extracting oil from acorns with my oil press. In theory, this should help dry out the acorn and leave a very finely broken meat for flour right? or is it more ideal to leave the oil in for the flour?
Wow, they are so huuge!! Do You know from what specific kind of oak trees they grow? Here in central europe, the biggest acorns are about as big as the fingertip of a thumb - very much smaller than this ones. (I think (no, I know) that I need to grow at least one of those Oak trees in my forest.)
What sort of acorns are the ones pictured? The White Oaks in our area of Northern Indiana produce acorns about the size of a quarter at the largest. Most no bigger than a nickel.
Each of those acorns is like 10 of the ones here! Not everything is bigger in Texas I guess? I’ve heard these trees call scrub oak, some post oak, they are not the big oaks on tv. These grow sideways sometimes and are curved. Anyway, they produce a lot of acorns, tiny ones.
Several years ago I was visiting in Hoopa, CA...home of the Hupa Native American tribe...they had a big meal spread out at the Firehall and they invited me to attend. One of the ladies bragged about her acorn soup and I would have to have a big bowl of it because it was so good. So, I took a couple large ladles full and proceeded to eat it....I have NEVER tasted anything so AWFUL in my life that was supposed to be so wonderful...I was watching some of the other folks there...they were steering clear of this acorn soup....I could see why....No more of that crap for me! When I felt no one was looking, I scraped the vast majority of the soup into a garbage barrel.
I tried eating an acorn as a kid and it was vile. However, we only have English Oak, which produces far smaller acorns. So once processed and baked, what does it taste like?
Acorns have so much bitterness that you have to wash out. I had to leave crushed acorns in water for days before they were even remotely palatable. Even if they taste horrible, they can be used for chicken/rabbit feed, and they make excellent fuel because of the oil content.
When I was a kid I once tasted an acorn. Never again... In school we were told you can't eat them, only wild boars eat them. Instead of acorns we looked for edible chestnuts and walnuts.
What about other species of acorn (oak) like a englemann oak acorns? I read something that suggested indgenious people camped near these yet hiked a long ways off to harvest some other acorns (forgot which) which maybe explains the all the non engelmann and engelmann hybrids we have In our area that is supposed to be all engelmann oak ....DANG do we get a ton of accorns though! SO many! (we have like 50-100 trees some huge some babies)
Wondered why so bitter as a kid. Would take a bite without removing the brownish covering and just throw away. Ours were so small. Hated landing on them jumping off swing as a kid. Ouch!
What kind of 'acorns' are these? The acorns I know are basically just slightly bigger hazelnuts in size. These are three to four times longer than any I've ever seen.
Acorn flour may be far more nutritious than most store bought flour, but it's not as versatile. There are a surprising number of modern foods that call for flour, which actually require gluten in order for the food to come out right, and acorn flour contains 0% gluten. So, to make any of those foods (pasta and yeast-leavened bread, just to name a couple examples) with acorn flour, you'd need to add either gluten, or some sort of gluten replacer.
During WWII the Germans (who were essentially blockaded by the Royal Navy from importing anything by sea) used a mixture of acorns and chicory to make artificial coffee.
Wow, those acorn are either gigantic or these people are like 4 feet tall ?! :-) Our acorn are about 1/4 of that size and they are great for feeding it to the pigs and then have sausage, bacon&beans :-) The deer like the acorns as well and we like the deer :-)
lived in the upper midwest and never saw anywhere near that size. Squirrels must be the size of raccoons.
Nothing can beat the older documentaries. Enjoyed it while gaining knowledge, thank you !!!
Those look more like potatoes than any acorn I've ever seen!
Took me a few days. Changed the water every day.
They tasted like raw peanuts. Didn't do any harm. Also tried nettles. They tasted like spinach.
Im not even sure why im watching this, we don't even have acorns where I live lol
Fascinating! I grew up thinking they were inedible. Man these are HUGE!!!!
As per an anthropology course I took at CCNY, there were Sacramento Indians (CA). They were told to move one day. The army/Calvary came back to move them. Every trace of this tribe was gone...they supposedly were never seen again. This tribe worshiped the acorn, ate it, etc. The acorn to them supposedly represented life. Their houses had a 15' -20' diameter roof supported by vertical poles around the circumference & in the center, no walls. The roof was peaked at the center.
I've tried to research the Sacramento Tribe but cannot find anything about them.
True story: My recommended list has this video right next to a snobby British guy talking about how millionaires customize their Rolls Royces.
At least UA-cam got this one right for me.
"If you find a live weevil, fry it up." -- hard core!!
Wow! Those are the biggest acorns I have ever seen...
nice video. My problem living in Denmark is that it is allmost impossible to find a clean stream, so i dont know hov to do the detanning.
I live in West central Wisconsin and the acorns were HUGE, but I've never seen acorns as big as the ones in your video! Where on earth do you live??!!!!!
I live in Arkansas and we have red and white oak trees on our property and the deer and squirrels love them and I only tried eating them once and the bitter taste stopped me from eating any more. We also have hickory and black walnut trees and when growing up ate plenty of them and since retiring have thought of eating them again since we have so many trees and plenty of nuts on them. I will try eating the acorns again and this time make sure only the good part is kept and thanks for sharing this information on how to save them.
A very good video. Lots of information. As far back as I can remember, I have never tasted acrons, but I would like to some day.
I remember reading somewhere that Native Americans would sit a basket of acorns in a clean flowing stream. I assume this was to remove the tannic acid.
Holy CRAP!!! Those are the biggest acorns I've ever seen! (Southern California Native).
If I remember correctly, from my Boy Scout's of America handbook, the acorns must be placed in a basket and running water washed through the baskets in a series of washings. Or the acorns must be boiled until the tannin in the acorns are removed. All of this is necessary to get rid of the tannin inorder to make a acorn breadstuff. Tannin can be used to make a remedy for a headache.
What about using a manual coffee grinder to grind acorns? Would that work?
Two things stand out for me: 1- those are some huge nuts. 2- I did a double-take on those plates... I have the same set -- Corelle -- and it's a discontinued pattern. And FWIW, I actually collected some acorns this fine October afternoon.
I never knew there were bigger acorns, out there!! I thought they were all "squirrel size"! And did not know, you could make flour, out of acorns...I would actually pay, to try this, as I alas, don't have the patience to do something like this, lol!
There was one tree down the road hat produced these huge white acorns. Then a developer came and clear cut the land to put up a housing development. Now all we have left in the area is small red and white acorns.
Different oaks produce different flavors of acorn. Some white oak acorns have very little tannin and can be eaten raw.
I am a senior gent that grew up in Arkansas. I was never able to get past the first bite of an acorn due to the awful bitter taste. I often wondered how animals could eat them.
Interesting video.
Those are some HUGE acorns. The ones I've seen are about the size of a nickel.
Really Nice description. I never knew about the outer bitter covering. Some nice tips! Now you've got me thinking about ordering the DVD.
Thanks !
And then how do you eat them?)
Good narration and production quality!
Thanks !
I remember trying an acorn as a kid, maybe 4 years old. Spat it out immediately.
You have some HUGE acorns there! What sort of oak tree produces them? Out here in Calif, we use mostly black oak and white oak acorns. We sometimes use the golden oak acorn too, but they are much harder to pound. Water oak acorn are big, like yours, but they don't thicken up into mush on cooking.
Thanks mine were bitter and I didnt know why until you told me you have to remove the skin under the shell next years bread will be much better
WOW. what kind of oak tree are they from? they are huge
I wonder how acorn powder tastes like. I want to try it one of these days but it's not very easy to find.
They Are Very Delicious Where Can You Buy Them In California? There Was A Lot Of Trees In Mexico. We Called Them bellotas.
Those are some good size acorns!
How about Black Oaks? They have a lot of Tannen.
I've never seen acorns that big!
Last year I had a bumper crop of white acorns and so I collected a whole bunch. They ended up getting mold so I threw them back out into the yard. Next time I will shell them first. Thanks for the tip!
I have been considering extracting oil from acorns with my oil press. In theory, this should help dry out the acorn and leave a very finely broken meat for flour right? or is it more ideal to leave the oil in for the flour?
I've never seen acorns that size. And "no thanks" to eating fried weevils. I'm not THAT hungry!
Wow, they are so huuge!! Do You know from what specific kind of oak trees they grow?
Here in central europe, the biggest acorns are about as big as the fingertip of a thumb
- very much smaller than this ones.
(I think (no, I know) that I need to grow at least one of those Oak trees in my forest.)
What sort of acorns are the ones pictured? The White Oaks in our area of Northern Indiana produce acorns about the size of a quarter at the largest. Most no bigger than a nickel.
Each of those acorns is like 10 of the ones here! Not everything is bigger in Texas I guess? I’ve heard these trees call scrub oak, some post oak, they are not the big oaks on tv. These grow sideways sometimes and are curved. Anyway, they produce a lot of acorns, tiny ones.
I wanted test the acorns, but didn’t know to prepare them. Thax film.
Where are these acorns harvested? I'm in Canada. Ive never seen acorns that big.
Question: on what Planet did you collect these acorns and is it possible to ride the Squirrels. that is, if you can capture one with out being killed.
Several years ago I was visiting in Hoopa, CA...home of the Hupa Native American tribe...they had a big meal spread out at the Firehall and they invited me to attend. One of the ladies bragged about her acorn soup and I would have to have a big bowl of it because it was so good. So, I took a couple large ladles full and proceeded to eat it....I have NEVER tasted anything so AWFUL in my life that was supposed to be so wonderful...I was watching some of the other folks there...they were steering clear of this acorn soup....I could see why....No more of that crap for me! When I felt no one was looking, I scraped the vast majority of the soup into a garbage barrel.
I tried eating an acorn as a kid and it was vile.
However, we only have English Oak, which produces far smaller acorns.
So once processed and baked, what does it taste like?
We have acornseverywhere, I never new you could ear them!
Our UK acorns are very small things only fit for squirrels.
Very cool thank you. Those are the biggest acorns I've ever seen
I should have watched this two weeks ago... all acorns are under the snow where I live😖
LOL just add the weevils to your stirfry, hahaha.
Know which UK species of Oak Acorns we can eat?? Your US acorns are huge.
Can you use live oak acorns. Could pick up lots when we winter in Texas. We pick pecans now, but could pick acorns as well
Acorns have so much bitterness that you have to wash out. I had to leave crushed acorns in water for days before they were even remotely palatable. Even if they taste horrible, they can be used for chicken/rabbit feed, and they make excellent fuel because of the oil content.
I've never seen acorns that huge before.
What kind of mutant acorns are those?
i read somewhere that deer will travel for miles to acorn tree its like candy to them dont which acorn it is red ore white oak
When I was a kid I once tasted an acorn. Never again... In school we were told you can't eat them, only wild boars eat them. Instead of acorns we looked for edible chestnuts and walnuts.
the acorns I am use to seeing are about the size of a marble WOW
Excellent video. But what do you do next. Boil them?
What about other species of acorn (oak) like a englemann oak acorns? I read something that suggested indgenious people camped near these yet hiked a long ways off to harvest some other acorns (forgot which) which maybe explains the all the non engelmann and engelmann hybrids we have In our area that is supposed to be all engelmann oak ....DANG do we get a ton of accorns though! SO many! (we have like 50-100 trees some huge some babies)
How do you get the tannins out of them
I have a basket of these but they kept sprouting. I'm going to have to try this! 💐Jen
ten times the size of our acorns!
What is the variety of oak?
I have those exact same plates. Bought new in the late 70s or early 80s. 😊
I have smaller rounder acorns which acorn type is yours? mine are a Canadian variety
This is well made. Thank you.
Where did they get them big acorns?
Does anyone know where these Franken nuts are grown?
i tought acorns were poisonus??? Or i that just for horses?
Does it work with all species of oak? The acorns here are tiny.
Can the acorns be roasted in the shell, then stored?
Can you roast them in the shell like other nuts?
Only half a video. It was good but how to leach or soak, finish the flour, other uses?
Eloquently delivered. Brava!
Wondered why so bitter as a kid. Would take a bite without removing the brownish covering and just throw away. Ours were so small. Hated landing on them jumping off swing as a kid. Ouch!
I've never seen acorns anywhere near that large.
What kind of 'acorns' are these? The acorns I know are basically just slightly bigger hazelnuts in size. These are three to four times longer than any I've ever seen.
Umm. Where can I get a smaller rock?
can you just eat the nuts after they are shelled?
Are acorns not edible as-is, or when they're dried?
Acorn flour may be far more nutritious than most store bought flour, but it's not as versatile. There are a surprising number of modern foods that call for flour, which actually require gluten in order for the food to come out right, and acorn flour contains 0% gluten. So, to make any of those foods (pasta and yeast-leavened bread, just to name a couple examples) with acorn flour, you'd need to add either gluten, or some sort of gluten replacer.
Holy shit those acorns are enormous.........
Where in the heck did those acorns come from?
During WWII the Germans (who were essentially blockaded by the Royal Navy from importing anything by sea) used a mixture of acorns and chicory to make artificial coffee.
Why not eat the sprouts? Usually sprouts are nutritious.
I am from Florida we have one of the largest oak trees there is a live oak never seen acorns that big
They are Huge nuts!! The squirrels Must get those!!
Wow, those acorn are either gigantic or these people are like 4 feet tall ?! :-) Our acorn are about 1/4 of that size and they are great for feeding it to the pigs and then have sausage, bacon&beans :-) The deer like the acorns as well and we like the deer :-)
What about boiling?
I am just going to say it, You Guys Are Nuts.
Which variety are they?
So you just dry them and then eat them? How long does it take to dry?
I agree with Wade Wilson, the acorns around here are about the size of a thumbnail, maybe a little larger.
I've never have seen acorns this size. What kind are they?
But you didn't tell us how to process - how to remove the tannic acid and how to cook . . . hello?
Do you have like seven foot tall squirrels there too?
Are English acorns the same as American?