Acorn Flour - Hillbilly Style

[@BushcraftNFun]

Good to know some of these old ways. You never know with the state of the world, when you may need to know them. Thanks for sharing!

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

Thanks Heather, you are right, things are wobbling on so many fronts at the moment. I was glad to see your RV get a good test, being compact like that has many advantages over towing a caravan. ATB to you and Rick

[@pampamtv4527]

Amazing how many berries so close to each. Nice to see such vast outdoors with good foraging.

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

The trees tend to have good years every so often, followed by lean years, I think it is to do with thwarting the squirrels/deer etc from getting all the acorns. This year was great for apples and acorns but not so good for some plums, not so bad for damsons though. Our weather is definitely getting warmer so we will just have to see what thrives and what does not. Best wishes take care on your travels.

[@RobertsBulgaria]

Those SLOES look a lot larger than the small Grape sized ones I get in my Hedgerows, but I can't eat them - I'll wait for the first frost and harvest some and try out a SLOE GIN for Christmas. I have an Oak Copse not far from my location. Went there a couple of years ago and got bucket loads of large Acorns. Had plans to make a coffee substitute and bring some on to sprouting for replanting, but in the end, gave them all to my Pigs who devoured them with pleasure. Yes, the leaving in a bucket of water overnight and chucking the floaters (to my Pigs) sorts out the bad ones. Will catch up on your follow up video when I get time to view, a busy weekend awaits.

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

Yes we have some great sloes this year, three frosts already here so I am eating them 🙂 Acorns are a bit of a faff from start to finish but there are penty of them and I think I can improve on my method. If I had pigs (not enough space and too many regulations here) I would be gathering them by the bucket load. Wishing you all the best, far better to be busy 😃

[@stealthandysteath1069]

Evening mate, bloody great one. I'm going ta star it next year. Got a back garden full... But all no good to use. Thanks for the idea. 👍🇺🇸

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

A bit tedious but it will supplement my use of flour if I can get it going a little more efficiently. We are all (collectively speaking) tending to forget anything to do with a little self sufficiency, and how work intensive it actually is. Thanks for your comments Andy 👍

[@WyeExplorer]

I haven't received notification from you for a while. Glad to be back. I was only thinking of prepping some acorn this week - wondering if it can be done. And it can. You showed the process very well here. I thought the flower from the articles I' read would turn out better than that. Apparently not. But a good effort none the less. Well, have a great week ahead. Mark

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

Thanks Mark, I have made it before in the exact same fashion and it is not brilliant but quite acceptable if you mix it with at least 50% regular flour. It contains no gluten so does not bind very well (at all) on it's own. It will provide a good degree of nutrition but my efforts are quite labor intensive so I am looking to simplify the process. Best wishes and I have been watching your videos but not commenting as much as usual as my work load is a bit excessive.

[@WyeExplorer]

@@GrasshopperOutdoors A pleasure Chris. Yeah, I see they have nutritional value. At least you reduce the amount of flower needed and for free. Thanks for the views.

[@BeercanBushcraft]

Absolutely brilliant mate 👍 When I did it (many years ago and if I remember correctly??) I broke/crushed the acorns, put them in a large muslin bag, and put them in a bucket of water. I can't remember, but I think that I washed them for a week? Dried them, then ground them between stones (grinding was the hardest part). Made some flapjacks. Very gritty, but delicious 😋 Great video my old son 👍 👍 👍 🍻 🍻 🍻

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

Thanks Ian, yes I think there has to be a slightly less labor intensive method of getting a few bags of flour, I am sure Neolithic man had a more energy efficient method, letting nature do most of the leeching at least. The grinding was easy for me because I just used the blender, but it struggles and I will be in serious trouble if I bust it. I have made it before and it made some splendid bread (mixed with regular flour as it won't bind on its own). I have many more acorns to process, so I might just try burying them in the garden with wood ash and leaving them until spring ☺ Best wishes to you and your family

[@southleedsmemories2686]

Another wonderful little video, Chris. Thank you. They are so relaxing to watch. Do you find them relaxing to make? They should be on every ASMR channel, methinks' I would love to give it a go, but I don't have the same setup that you have got. What were those little plants Chris, if you don't mind me asking?

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

The plants are Kale, they will give us a few greens through the winter and into the spring before the butterflies get going and lay their eggs on them 😥 As for the videos I only started to give a bit of credibility for if I commented on others work. I find it makes any task more than twice as difficult, but it does make me learn and think a lot more, so I would say I enjoy having made a video rather than I enjoy the actual making of it. The software is also difficult and you always have to be mindful of the censorship on YT. My equipment is not terribly good either and at some point I will have to think about building a more capable computer as I understand the editing process a bit more. I may at some point do a video on the making of a video, that might be a laugh. Once again thanks for the support. tc

[@southleedsmemories2686]

@@GrasshopperOutdoorsKale? I should have known that. I use Kale in my green smoothies. It's a shame that you don't quite get the same enjoyment from making them as we do from watching them. I hope you are here to say though, Chris. I love watching your videos. You build computers as well, Chris? Amazing :-) Cheers. 🙂

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

@@southleedsmemories2686 I do not dislike making videos, more I have lots to do and there are always conflicts of time and computers can easily take up a lot of time, especially editing, in fact a few videos I start never get finished for various reasons. I really stopped building computers at about Windows 98, I still mess about with them and run Linux rather than Windows but you do really have to keep up with computers as it is easy to loose the plot things are changing so fast. Right now I should be making an apple pie (using some acorn flour) so I better go get on with it .......... tc

[@simonridley9333]

perhaps the leys might act as a milk substitute reckon it would add some guns to porridge atb

[@GrasshopperOutdoors]

Exactly, if I evaporated some of the water off, I am guessing it is not unlike soya milk as you can taste (and feel) the substance in it so it is a shame to waste it, (I put it on the plants).