[MD] is-ness

[MarshaV]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Perella" <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] is-ness


>
>
> Marsha:
>> The idea of this bread and these pancakes is so
>> wonderful..., so amazing....
>> It seems that it should be the most common experience to
>> make these recipes,
>> but it is like a special secret.
>
>
> SA:  Acorns are everywhere around here, yes seems "it should be the most 
> common experience", the simple beauties, the easy walks to the trees 
> impeded and made into something secret and seemingly "holy grail", but 
> this is what the separations over the centuries can do to popular culture.
>
>
> love,
> SA
>


Greetings lovely SA,

I've never been camping.  Kind of, in the cabin of our small sailboat, but 
not in the woods.  I have wanted to try it, but it never happened.

Marsha








>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Heather Perella"
>> <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
>> To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:47 AM
>> Subject: Re: [MD] is-ness
>>
>>
>> >I still have not done this, but maybe this autumn.  My
>> time has been freed
>> >up tremendously, so, probably this will happen.
>> >
>> >
>> > --- On Wed, 10/24/07, Dan Glover
>> <daneglover at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: Dan Glover <daneglover at hotmail.com>
>> >> Subject: Re: [MD] is-ness
>> >> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>> >> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 12:51 PM
>> >> > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:06:30 -0700
>> >> > From: spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com
>> >> > To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>> >> > Subject: Re: [MD] is-ness
>> >> >
>> >> >> [SA]
>> >> >> What do you add to the flour for this
>> bread?
>> >> >> Just water and then bake? Interesting.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> [Ron]
>> >> >> I'm going to have to ask my mom, I
>> think she
>> >> may
>> >> >> have
>> >> >> A recipe or two.
>> >>
>> >> PREPARATION OF GROUND ACORN MEAL
>> >>
>> >> Pick up several cupfuls of acorns. All kinds of
>> oaks have
>> >> edible acorns. Some have more tannin than others,
>> but
>> >> leaching will remove the tannin from all of them.
>> Shell the
>> >> acorns with a nutcracker, a hammer, or a rock.
>> >>
>> >> Grind them. If you are in the woods, smash them, a
>> few at a
>> >> time on a hard boulder with a smaller stone,
>> Native American
>> >> style. Do this until all the acorns are ground
>> into a
>> >> crumbly paste. If you are at home, it's faster
>> and
>> >> easier to use your mom's blender. Put the
>> shelled acorns
>> >> in the blender, fill it up with water, and grind
>> at high
>> >> speed for a minute or two. You will get a thick,
>> >> cream-colored goo. It looks yummy, but tastes
>> terrible.
>> >>
>> >> Leach (wash) them. Line a big sieve with a dish
>> towel and
>> >> pour in the ground acorns. Hold the sieve under a
>> faucet and
>> >> slowly pour water through, stirring with one hand,
>> for about
>> >> five minutes. A lot of creamy stuff will come out.
>> This is
>> >> the tannin. When the water runs clear, stop and
>> taste a
>> >> little. When the meal is not bitter, you have
>> washed it
>> >> enough.
>> >>
>> >> Or, in camp, tie the meal up in a towel and swish
>> it in
>> >> several bucketfuls of clean drinking water, until
>> it passes
>> >> the taste test.
>> >>
>> >> Squeeze out as much water as you can, with your
>> hands. Use
>> >> the ground acorn mash right away, because it turns
>> dark when
>> >> it is left around. Or store in plastic for
>> freezing if you
>> >> want to make the bread and pancakes later.
>> >>
>> >> ACORN BREAD
>> >>
>> >> 2 cups acorn flour
>> >> 2 cups cattail or whole wheat flour
>> >> 3 teaspoons baking powder
>> >> 1/3 cup honey or maple syrup
>> >> 1 (free range) egg
>> >> 1/2 cup soy milk
>> >> 3 tablespoons olive oil
>> >> Beat together and fashion into loaf. Grease pan
>> with lard.
>> >> Bake for 30 minutes or until done at 400 degrees
>> >>
>> >> ACORN PANCAKES
>> >>
>> >> Break an (free range) egg into a bowl. Add:
>> >> 1 teaspoon olive oil
>> >> 1 teaspoon of honey or maple syrup
>> >> 1/2 cup of ground and leached acorns
>> >> 1/2 cup of corn meal
>> >> 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour
>> >> 2 teaspoons of double action baking powder
>> >> 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt
>> >> 1/2 cup of soy milk
>> >>
>> >> Beat all together. If the batter is too thick to
>> pour, thin
>> >> it with soy milk. Pour pancakes into a hot, lard
>> greased
>> >> griddle and cook slowly until brown on both sides.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>