Re: [Mid] Uses for Acorns

Hi. I checked with my wife; she said acorns don't do a great job for
dying. They can be used for food, though; she said it's a pretty involved
process-- soak them a long time to get the bitterness out, grind them up,
etc. She has directions from a book on Native American stuff; if you're
interested, email her at emilysue@earthlink.net & she can forward you more
info.

thomas penyngton

At 12:28 PM 10/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>A friend of mine posted this earlier, reposted with her permission--Siobhan
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>I'm not sure I really want an answer to this (as there are so many of
>them), but does anyone on this list know what I can do with a
>wheelbarrow full of acorns?? Do they make a dye like oak galls or
>walnut husks?? I still have more to pick up from my lawn and
>flowerbeds, but this oak tree has decided that it just HAD to drop
>millions of the little suckers <grin>. Thank goodness, it does this
>about once every 3 years or so <sigh>. At least the oak tree in the
>back yard isn't being so prolific!! I've already done a Google search,
>and found nothing pertaining to how to use acorns (except for one woman
>in California who makes flour with them -- a bit more work than I think
>I want to put into this project at the moment).
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>Meisterin Katarina Helene von Schönborn, OL
>Shire of Narrental (Peru, Indiana) http://narrental.home.insightbb.com
>Middle Kingdom
>http://meisterin.katarina.home.insightbb.com
>helen.schultz@insightbb.com
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>From: "Judith Kirk" <judith.a.kirk@wmich.edu>
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