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Backyard Acorn Flour!

10/29/2016

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​Did you know that acorns are edible?  They were commonly used by Native Americans and a great source of protein and fats. It just takes a few steps to make them healthy and delicious!


Step 1 - Gather the acorns.

We collected acorns from under our beautiful Live Oak in our yard that the kids call 'Magic Tree'.

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Step 2: Soak in water and remove the floaters.
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Step 3: Flash boil the acorns. This helps to easily remove the shells and skins.
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Step 4: After cooling, crack open the acorns with hammers, rocks, or nutcrackers and remove the nut meat.
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Step 5: Boil the shelled acorns to leach out the bitter tannins. We boiled ours for 30 minutes then removed the yellow water, added fresh water and brought to boil again.  After 4 boiling sessions, we tried the acorns and they were no longer bitter!
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Step 6: Mash the cooked acorns and spread out onto a cookie sheet to dry out in the sun or in an oven at 200 degrees until dry and crispy.
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It's really fun to play Monster Mash while you are mashing :)
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Step 7: Take the dried mash and grind it into a flour.
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The kids love this grain mill - they took to it with gusto!
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You can make bread, muffins, pancakes and more with your acorn flour.  We made chocolate chip cookies!
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PS - we like these Lily's Chocolate Chips, sugar free and the kids love them!
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We learned all about acorns and oak trees this month!
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Sorting different varieties of acorns with tongs and chopsticks...
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... then making clay puzzles with the first letter of our names!
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We loved reading these books to learn more about acorns and oak trees:
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Acorn math!
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Counting acorns!
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Estimating acorns!
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Sorting acorns by size and color!
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Counting acorns by 2's!
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Acorn games!
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The kids were so surprised to learn that acorns sink and pumpkins float in this sink/float experiment.
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Oak Leaf Rubbings!
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With the leftover paper from our leaf rubbings we made recycled paper!
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Decorated with Texas Red Oak leaves!
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Mama Wendy made us a broom from Bur Oak leaves!
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ABC walk! We are having such a lovely warm Fall.  It's a great time to go out for a walk and an ABC walk helps keep the kids entertained and really noticing the world around them. On our walk through the garden we found...

Acorns!
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Blossoms!
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Collards!
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...and all the way to Zombies!
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ABC rocks!
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Have you noticed all the beautiful butterflies on the passionflowers by the front gate?
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We identified them as the Gulf Frittilary, explored with their caterpillars, and checked out some wings we found in the microscope!
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See you next time!
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2 Comments
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9/19/2017 10:40:08 am

Amazing... really happy to see kids doing something creative. There are other options too.. they can also download and play different games on internet though

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