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frogcottage42
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|  New Message Posted!2010-10-24 17:01
Hi Rune, acorns are so full of tannin that they require either a long soak after crushing in running water or gentle blanching and rinsing before drying and grinding. It strikes me that with the quantities needed for winter stores that the positioning of FF next to running water and the facility to heat quite a quantity would lend itself well to this process.
It also seems that FF are invariably near ancient oak woodland.
As for myself I do not use as much as I feel I should but Mushrooms are my big thing, I eat far too many.
This year has been the most bountiful for all these things in living memory and I have a large quantity of dried mushrooms for winter as well as the ubiquitous blackberries etc in preserve form and lots of mackerel in the freezer.
If it's free it seems a crime to waste it.
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Runemage
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| New Message Posted!2010-10-24 14:08
Do you make things from your wild harvest? Some interesting ideas on here. http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/
Processing the acorns in a FF in what way to make what? (boiling alone being too obvious and a FF would hold a vast amount, so whatever was made, there would be huge amounts of it so it should have stored well. I've Googled around and there are so many recipes, even including acorn flour.
Or was it Acorn Beer you had in mind 
Rune
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| New Message Posted!2010-10-24 11:02
Ancestors? the best of the mushroom season is coming to an end but it was a great one here, Haw berries, crab apples, Rose hips, sloes, rowan berries, elder berries and countless others are still very much on the menu.
I walk around all the time looking at the fresh larder pouring out of the hedgerows!
I suspect this time of year would be mostly devoted to storage and in areas like I live in Acorns and berries would be the long term harvest due to a singular lack of evidence for intensive arable production.
I sometimes wonder if Fullacht Fiadh could have been used to process acorns although no evidence has yet come to light.
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Runemage
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| New Message Posted!2010-10-24 00:55
Hi Haliburton,
Good to see you back on the forums  I wonder what the Ancestors would have foraged for snacks at this time of year?
Berries and mushrooms at a guess.
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On 2010-10-22 20:58, haliburton wrote:
RuneMage,
Any of those recipes for snacks!
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| New Message Posted!2010-10-22 20:58
RuneMage,
Any of those recipes for snacks!
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| New Message Posted!2010-07-19 16:42
http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/roman/fetch-recipe.php?rid=roman-barley-cake
I found barley flour and made these.
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John_Seaford
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| New Message Posted!2010-07-19 16:39
One of the links is way cool. It has a paper with the title: Hemochromatosis: A Neolithic adaptation to cereal grain diets.
It seems there is a mutation where you can not get rid of iron from your body. A big advantage to those peasants in Europe (my ancestors) that ate mostly barley.
Today these poor people have to give blood on a frequent basis to get rid of their iron.
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Runemage
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| New Message Posted!2010-07-14 19:48
Loads of links, some Neolithic.
http://thisisdiversity.com/articles/all/3920/which-is-healthier-paleolithic-or-neolithic-diet-meat-or-plant-based-foods
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2010-07-14 19:47
Hello,
Look up the work of Jacqui Wood
Food and Drink in European Prehistory by Jacqui Wood
http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/Contribute/ArchaeologyArticles/tabid/85/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/12/Default.aspx
Food of the Ancients by Jacqui Wood
http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/Contribute/ArchaeologyArticles/tabid/85/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/15/Food-of-the-Ancients-by-Jacqui-Wood.aspx
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John_Seaford
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| New Message Posted!2010-07-14 19:31
Thank you for your quick posts. The diets suggested are Paleolithic. I am asking about neolithic. Farming was invented in the neolithic era. I am interested in the beginning of farming and cooking of grains, pulses and peas and such...
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