The acorns are coming down :-)

[Toddy]

Beautiful big, fat, creamy acorns littering the woodland this morning :-)
Acorn coffee for the rest of the year
Going back out this afternoon for a forage.
There are a couple of threads on how to prep the acorns........I'll see if I can find a link.

cheers,
Toddy


http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/sho...t=acorn+coffee

[Tadpole]

Beautiful big, fat, creamy acorns littering the woodland this morning :-)
Acorn coffee for the rest of the year
Going back out this afternoon for a forage.
There are a couple of threads on how to prep the acorns........I'll see if I can find a link.

cheers,
Toddy


http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/sho...t=acorn+coffee

Sadly nearly all the acorns round me have galls on them, or some kind of scale. Apart from the two red oak in a local park, and the acorns are tiny.

[EdS]

been coming down for weeks here

[Toddy]

Ours weren't coming down yesterday, but I got half a kilo this afternoon .......and it's windy
Must go look for the Beechnuts too.

atb,
M

[woodstock]

At the woods just up from my house the acorns have mostly turned black and manky some bloke who does some of the wood management told me this occurs when they have been attacked by bees or wasps news to me can anybody shed any light on this..

[addo]

Yeah, there probably Gall wasps. It wont get all of the acorns on a tree though. There are a few other gall wasps that live in other parts of the oak, swelling and reshaping the part.

[pauldr]

whoo hoo i know what im gonna do 2morow acorn coffee mmmmmm

[R Doull]

ok daft question.. never collected acorns before but keen to give it a try... what am I looking for? Green? brown? on the tree? on the ground?

prob daft questions but I have no idea..

[Toddy]

ok daft question.. never collected acorns before but keen to give it a try... what am I looking for? Green? brown? on the tree? on the ground?

prob daft questions but I have no idea..

Fresh, green, clean, on the ground. Usually just out of their cups though some are still attached.

cheers,
M

[R Doull]

thanks Toddy.. I'll be out to see what I can try this weekend..

[tommy the cat]

Just out of interest what maggot lives in acorns?
Was having a look at some acorns today and found a few that had small slits in them where maggots were living.Dave

[RobertRogers]

Yeah, in some places I can hardly sit down anywhere without getting bonked in the head.

Sadly, every acorn I broken open has one or more fat white grubs eating the meat inside. The squirrels seem to be harvesting the good ones before they fall off the tree.

[Gwhtbushcraft]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall

[leon-1]

Not managed much in the way of acorns yet, I'll have to get out and about and see what I can see, but I did manage about 3.5 stone in Walnuts along with Lou last week.

[Jumbalaya]

Not managed much in the way of acorns yet, I'll have to get out and about and see what I can see, but I did manage about 3.5 stone in Walnuts along with Lou last week.

Think of acorns as more than coffee... Try leaching them of their tannin and using as a foodstuff... pasta, muffins, biscuits &c.

Marcus