Post AOp0avxrIFe1DTPtpY by seachaint@hackers.town
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 (DIR) Post #AOozv7YNob94zrYxGK by seachaint@hackers.town
       2022-10-22T09:15:23Z
       
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       This year's tree-nut #forage / #foraging is going great. First year collecting enough acorns to make flour, and first year collecting enough beechnuts to roast (and they are tasty, huzzah!).As I now have at least a cup of cold-leached flour, today I may try making a little loaf of acorn-bread, or maybe acorn-muffins. I have enough acorns yet to be processed to make another 3-5 cups over the coming month. In future years I hope to get better at collecting and rack up enough to keep me busy all winter.I've also made a batch of hot-leached acorn flour for making acorn-cocoa ("Oakoa") and it is good, especially with some hazelnut flour mixed in. It leaves a thick residue of starchy grinds at the bottom but imparts a gentle and satisfying flavour to hot oat milk, and scarcely needs sweetening. As I suspected, using hot-leached acorns for Oakoa was an improvement: made it much easier to mix and eliminated lumpiness.I was tempted to mince in some walnuts to add a little bitterness and see if that approached the flavour of cocoa, but i was motivated to stick to nuts I can rely on locally. That means Acorns, beech, and hazelnuts. Though I may experiment with adding some herbal bitters, later. I was wondering whether to add powdered rosehips for sweetness and aroma also, that can be an experiment for a future batch perhaps.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOozv8029nGONcV2MS by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2022-10-22T09:42:33Z
       
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       @seachaint The poor Jays, Wood Pigeons, Chaffinches, and Squirrels, in your area will be starving.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOp0EzfOqcn6KOJxFA by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2022-10-22T09:46:10Z
       
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       @seachaint The poor Jays, Wood Pigeons, Chaffinches, and Squirrels, in your area, will be starving.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOp0avxrIFe1DTPtpY by seachaint@hackers.town
       2022-10-22T09:50:05Z
       
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       @fitheach I'll light a candle for them
       
 (DIR) Post #AOpC5i4E70qqaUGz8y by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2022-10-22T11:58:55Z
       
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       @seachaint That's no good, they're pagan.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOpCJl1rtdUvpOrttQ by Hyolobrika@berserker.town
       2022-10-22T12:01:28Z
       
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       @seachaint Nice. Roasted salted beechnuts are tasty af.