{"id":19519,"date":"2020-11-05T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/?p=19519"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:35:23","slug":"acorn-flour-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2020\/11\/05\/acorn-flour-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn Flour Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>To be honest I&#8217;ve always avoided making Acorn flour as it really sounds like a very long laborious task that results in a nutty flavoured flour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>That&#8217;s until I found out you could do it all in one day &#8211; probably an hour if you ran to your local oak tree to gather the acorns.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now we use this Acorn flour in a couple of things, as a flour substitute in breads and cakes but we also use as a substitute for crushed nuts in the base of cheesecakes or on top of yoghurt and honey &#8211; it&#8217;s a deep earthy nutty flavour and a little goes a long way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Acorns (we want them later in the season when they&#8217;re a dark brown &#8211; around mid-late October)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201017_135255-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Method<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Collect the brown acorns<\/li>\r\n<li>Pop them in a microwave for 30 seconds on high whilst still in their shells (this will soften the shell and split it away from the nut)<\/li>\r\n<li>Remove and peel the shells off of the nuts<\/li>\r\n<li>Discard the shells (I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s something crafty you could do with them but mine just went straight in to compost)<\/li>\r\n<li>Pop the acorn nuts in to a pan of boiling water and simmer for 5 minutes<\/li>\r\n<li>Strain away the liquid and place the nuts on a tea towel to absorb any excess liquid.<\/li>\r\n<li>Pop the boiled and dried nuts on a baking tray and place in the oven for 15 minutes at 150C<\/li>\r\n<li>Remove from the oven and blitz in a food processor<\/li>\r\n<li>Place the chopped nuts bake on the oven tray and roasted for a further 10 minutes<\/li>\r\n<li>Blend to a powder if you want flour or leave coarse to use as a crushed nut substitute<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201017_154508-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2>Find more Wild Food Recipes here<\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest I&#8217;ve always avoided making Acorn flour as it really sounds like a very long laborious task that results in a nutty flavoured flour. That&#8217;s until I found out you could do it all in one day &#8211; probably an hour if you ran to your local oak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[222,223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24524,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions\/24524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}