Recipe For Acorn Bread

 Recipe for Acorn Bread:

How to prepare acorns:

• Moldy, cracked, or infested acorns must be thrown out (you can float the acorns, the ones that sink are good to use)

• You must remove all the shells from the acorns and retrieve the meat ( a nutcracker can be beneficial for this step)

• Next, remove the toxic tannins from the acorns by boiling them, the tannins will make the water brown so repeat this process until the color is no longer removed

• Once the tannins are removed, roast the acorns for an hour at a low temp. (about 250 degrees)

Making acorn flour:

• For reference you need about 2 pounds of acorns to make 3 cups of acorn flour

• You can simply blend the acorns into flour using a blender or a food processor

Acorn Bread Ingredients:

• 1 cup of acorn flour

• 1 cup of all purpose flour (acorn flour can only be substituted for half the regular flour content in a recipe)

• 2 tablespoons of baking powder

• ½ a teaspoon of salt

• 3 tablespoons of sugar

• 1 egg beaten

• 1 cup of milk 

• 3 tablespoons of oil

Acorn Bread Recipe:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees

• Grease a loaf pan

• Combine dry ingredients in a small bowl

• Combine wet ingredients in a large bowl

• Mix the dry ingredients slowly into the wt ingredients

• Pour into pan (the batter will be quite lumpy)

• Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes

Note: This recipe is more of a hearty survival style acorn bread to adapt it. I would add vanilla extract or more sugar. However, if changing the recipe make sure the liquid to solid content stays relatively even. To sweeten you could also add a jam on the bread.