Making Acorn Bread for Survival Part 2

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okay so I've gathered my acorns so this batch is going to be the D skinned batch there's skin around the nut meat and dispatch I'm going to take it off

I'm also making a simultaneous batch where I've left the skin on so I'm going to process them exactly the same other than that one step reason being is it's a lengthy process it's a lot of work to descale the a corn meat where the other case is you know you just match it up grind it with the skin still on so you skip that step in this batch I'm going to take the skin off and see if there's a difference in flavor and see if the work is actually worth it so if you guys like processing acorns this is a cool book it will live forever a lot of pages I cut into 40 pages on trusting acorns it's very satisfying work you know I mean you get at least my my acorns are very very healthy so this right here is actually the skin that I was talking about see how peels off so I'm going to be pulling all that skin off in this batch now it's so nice for such a bounty like this to be made right before winter hits you know because acorns drop in the autumn and the fall of course and it's such a amazing food get you're ready for winter really is quite a gift right before you need it you know this is the season of gathering gathering gathering and

and preserving

very soon it's going to be cold as death outside

and having some a cornflour definitely we're definitely making night this is one of the staple foods humans have even all their lives it's a shame that we don't do it anymore it's incredibly good for you protein fat as fat as a rare thing in the woods just using a piece of quartzite and I found there's no reason why you can't do skills like this in your shelter you know obviously my house is my shelter right now right but this is a perfect job to do and your shelter in the woods at night before you go to bed you know you just relaxing by the fire light processing some acorns yeah bring a little rock in your shelter like this piece of cake you know I'm not using any tools here but two rocks you know it's those rhythms that uh that are lost you know because most of us don't live in the woods anymore I'm collecting during the day latter half of the day making flour and you can still even do it at night to shelter like I am like right now it's nighttime and I'm just processing some acorns is probably the last one nice healthy bowl of equivalence now I have to desk in them

okay so D skinning right I'm just going to scrape off the skin that's it right there

now I've never heard anybody mention this so don't know if it's really common knowledge but something that I found is that acorns make a purple dye they make a purple stain last year the band and I used to hold all my acorns when I leach them in the stream for a few days got dyed purple and right now my knife blade is starting to get dyed purple from all the tencel all the tannic acid but does take time so you just go along and scrape off all these skins because this was a necessary step that all the natives used they always took the skin off the skin is very bitter if you - by itself you'll taste that it's very bitter natives never left the skin on they almost never used green fresh fake ones like this either they used to use green acorns when they wanted to thicken up a corn that wasn't thickening up I also used to use green acorns in the first batch so at least from what I've read the first batch every year when the collecting acorn so it would make a cornbread and they would use some fresh and they would use what was left over from last year but

the way that I've read a tribe's processed acorns was that they dried them out for a year before they use them that is something that I want to improve upon obviously I know that natives lived for hundreds of thousands of years most likely eating acorns the whole time and if it could be proof improved upon they probably would have already done it but that's just not good enough for me I'm not going to wait a year to eat a resource like this to eat acorns it's crazy

so what I'm hoping is that I can figure out a way to take green acorns and make them edible which is why I'm going through all the trouble of D skinning knees but if the skinning was key in the process they took the time to dscan them every time so I'm sure it has merit they wouldn't have done all this work but wasn't worth it so this batch I'm going to go true to their style in this regard are removing the skin because if this is the key to making acorns edible and I find a way to make them edible now instead of having to wait a year but I'm wearing business

click on peeling potatoes even look like little potatoes huh I just wanted to show the amount skin that's on that nutmeat I mean it's insane put all that stuff breaks down pretty quick after just last a few minutes

cesta really break down for smells really good

all right so now I've got a pretty fine green okay so let me just take this and dump it into this pan down I'm gonna spread it out I'm going to dry it out once it's good and dry I'm going to throw it back to my bowl and grind it up one more time I'm going to really powder eyes it because I really want to get as much surface area as possible I want to get it as fine as possible at that point I'll leach it when it's in full powder form then I'll leach you soak this batch right here what I did was I took acorns I D shelled them I D skinned them and then I ground them up I pounded them powderized them I'm going to dry them out I'm going to powder right some one more time and then I'm going to leech him cuz she views come to you sport see in the next one take