>>2515084Alright then, I'll get real. As a kid I used to collect acorns from the live oak trees that everywhere around our slice of heaven in the sticks. Our property had large granite boulders with metates on them. The Kumeyaay/Diegueno had used these to grind acorns and manzanita fruit into meal for thousands of years. I'd dry the acorns in the sun, crack and peel them, and grind them just like the natives did. Then I'd put a few cups of the meal into a colander lined with cheesecloth and slowly pour about three or four gallons of water through it to wash out the tannic acid. You know you've rinsed it enough when it tastes nice and sweet. Then I'd either make hot mush (mom helped) or fried cakes. I did this many times because I was a wild kid who grew into a wild man. The cooked acorn meal tastes awesome btw.
