Acorn "coffee" (master class)

Acorn "coffee" (master class)

Category: The drinks

Ingredients
Acorns

Cooking method

• I learned about acorn "coffee" about 3 years ago. Of course, I myself would not have got out into the forest, but for a child it is entertainment. Ready to row foliage and collect acorns all day. So it turns out that I combine the useful with the pleasant.) And the usefulness in it is a carriage. Acorn coffee does not differ in color or taste from real coffee, and even surpasses it in nutritional value. Doctors strongly recommend such coffee to children, nervous and heart patients as an additional healing food for the body.
• One of the reasons that acorns have gradually lost their nutritional value lies, apparently, in the fact that they contain the glycoside quercitrin and tannins, which give acorns a certain bitterness. But this bitterness is easily eliminated by heating, and our ancestors probably knew this well.
• So let's get started. Collect acorns in September-October, until frost. We take large, brown, undamaged acorns. Rinse thoroughly with water.
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• Next, the acorns must be cleaned. It will be difficult to do it right away, although I cleaned for one year without preliminary preparation, but it's hard. Therefore, we spread the acorns on a baking sheet, put in an oven preheated to 200C (medium level) and fry until "cod" appears, literally 10 minutes. You can mix it once. Most of the acorns should open. Even if some did not reveal themselves, it’s not scary. They will be easy to clean anyway.
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• Next, cut each acorn in half with a knife, then again in half and peel it. All black inner spots must be cut out. If the acorns are not very large, then you can leave it that way, if large, then cut it. It is not necessary to grind so that during the subsequent frying the small pieces do not burn. We put the acorns in a drying or oven at 70C and dry until completely dry. I draw your attention to the fact that you need to dry thoroughly. so that mold does not appear in the future.
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• Next, we peel the dried acorns.
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• The next stage is frying. I've tried two options. The first is in a cast iron pan. Fire slightly above average, with constant stirring.
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• The second option is in the oven at maximum temperature. I have 230C + convection, with occasional stirring. The exact time depends on your oven. It took me 15 minutes.
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• I liked the second option more. Grilling is more even, does not burn and does not need to be constantly stirring. The readiness of acorns is determined as follows: it should easily break in the hands. But overcooking should not be allowed. otherwise everything will turn into dust.
• Next, you need to grind the acorns in a coffee grinder.
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• And brew at the rate of 1 hour. l. in a glass of water. I brewed in two options:
• 1. Bring to a boil on the stove, boil for 2-3 minutes, leave to stand for 10 minutes. Pictured is the left cup. The color is more saturated. the taste is more "coffee". I liked it more.
• 2. Pour boiling water over in a French press. Leave on for 10 minutes. Pictured is the right cup. The color is lighter. the taste is softer.
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• In general, I drink with milk and sugar. Very tasty, considering that I cannot drink regular coffee.

Believe it or not, I have just gathered for acorns and viburnum for exploration in the forest. Thank you, Ksyusha for the recipe! Gorgeous design! You can benefit from some photos. I admire!
Well, I went into the forest ...

[Ksyusha]

Oh wow, Ksyusha! And where have you been with such coffee before? This is what the savings will be.
And in general, a very relevant recipe now (imposed sanctions).

Little fellow, again a GOOD MAN! I won't do it yet, but I'll bookmark it!

Ksyusha, you never cease to amaze!
I'll go and try to talk about acorn coffee.
Teeeek, sir, do I have the nearest oak forest?

[Omela]

Omela, thanks for the enlightenment! I didn't know that acorns can be consumed in the form of coffee. I recorded

Gorgeous recipe and master class! I feel smarter! I will definitely take my younger ones to the coffee gathering! Thank you. And at what age can children drink such coffee?

Oh, how interesting!
It turns out that with different processing methods, you can get completely different results and consumer properties!
Mistletoe, will you try to make something else out of acorns, since you have such acorn edges?
And we are already behind you, for the pioneer!

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Mistletoe, thanks for the master class! Tomorrow we will go to the park for acorns with the children!
I can't sleep now until I try! The hamster has woken up in me again!

Well, I went into the forest ...

She came from the forest, to put it mildly, upset. Dubov is darkness. Not a single acorn! She bowed to each oak, prayed for each. Not under the oaks, not on the oaks - NOTHING. What is this! Is the forest not correct? And where to look for acorns? Now I want this coffee ...

[Oksan]

Oksan, well, what a painstaking worker you are! So cut the acorns!
I have 3 oak trees on the site, acorns are dark from them, you don't need to go to the forest, everything is under your feet! Why stir up coffee?

[Omela]

Omela, thank you very much for such a wonderful drink and for the informative information on making acorn coffee (I really love all that ancient Slavic). I also collect ingredients for a coffee drink (I learned it from my grandmother), but there are seven ingredients, including acorns. I also plan to experiment with drying, and roasting, and cooking. If everything works out, then maybe I'll post it in HP.

[Ludmila]

Dubov is darkness. Not a single acorn

Ludmila, we also have a shortage of acorns this year. The mother-in-law collects a small bag about once every two weeks (this is taking into account the fact that an oak tree in their country house grows right in the yard), and the linden this year did not bloom at all ... and the lilac too ...

Class! And if you put them in the microwave in order to open up ?? for a few minutes?

Wow, to fall down and not get up How can I move on to such a feat
Ksyusha, you are such a fine fellow, just a super fine fellow

[Marina]

We also have a shortage of acorns this year.

MarinaI live not so far from the Mistletoe, but such a difference is in natural surprises. Lilac and linden blossomed very luxuriantly. I once had 3 huge oak trees in my yard. Every autumn these acorns rowed with a shovel. And here there are forests 100 meters from the village and not an acorn ...
Marin, share your recipe. Maybe coffee can be made from something else ...

[Olga]

Girls, thank you very much for your attention to the recipe !!! Of course, the process takes time, especially the dreary cleaning of acorns, but the result is worth the cost.

Mistletoe, will you try to make something else out of acorns,

No, Ol, I will refrain. I already baked acorn bread and was not impressed. https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=79357.0

Not a single acorn

Luda, it's strange .. we even have acorns in the city.

And if you put them in the microwave in order to open up ?? for a few minutes?

Olga, theoretically it is possible, but I do not have a microwave, so I can not say anything about the modes and time.

And at what age can children drink such coffee?

Ir, I do not know. Mine drinks nothing but water. I think, since 3. Just have to bear in mind that acorns are fastened .. do not get carried away.

[Marina]

I am also collecting ingredients for a coffee drink (I recognized it from my grandmother),

Marina, will wait. I'll show you right now. how to properly harvest chicory.

I'll show you right now. how to properly harvest chicory

Well, yes, you also need it. I have already prepared it a little, but I will readily look at different ways.

Actually, I don't know how to do it right. I admit that my method is not correct. I do not know. in which section to stick with him.

I posted here: https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=395863.new#new

That's it, I'm already with acorns! Ride a bike with the youngest and grandmother to the park.My mother also collected a small package. We have several trees in total in our park, one very old, big one, there are a lot of acorns under it. We will try!

[Anya]

Anya, well done!!! This is speed !!

Luda, it's strange .. we even have acorns in the city.

Aha, strange! Well, I say, this is not the right forest ...

[Anya]

Anya, well done!!! This is speed !!

Yeah, I can’t do anything I want to do. And dad also brought 5 buckets of grapes for processing. Here are my acorns, I haven't collected much, I must try first.


Oh, and chicory? Going again? Although it grows right next to my house.

Going again?

No, no nat. Better stock up on acorns. Big, good!

Great! Thank you.
We also don't have acorns in the forest, and it's scary to collect in the city, there is more transport than leaves on a tree.
Here I think m. B. take a ride to Pushkin or Pavlovsk, but there are also a lot of cars there, and it's close to the city.

Vera, thank you! Maybe if not near the roads, then nothing.

In our city, acorns are lying under our feet. But it's on the road. But I can't go into the forest, I twisted my leg. I put the cauliflower from the refrigerator on it. I want acorns. Ksenia, I hope to dial more.

[Larissa]

Larissa, take care of your hand, Senya.. of course be treated !! You can collect it before frost, and by the weekend like + 19C they promise.

[Mistletoe]

Stunned!
How beautiful they are, these acorns! Ruddy, and bursting on a protrusion - generally a fairy tale.
Direct gifts of the forest, precious gifts.
Mistletoe, it is incredibly pleasant that you do not neglect these gifts and do such tasty and useful things.
The soul of the master_class is warm and cozy, as if she herself had collected such beauty and enjoyed wonderful coffee!
Eh, we have a lot of acorns in the Tauride Garden (it was recently), but he is in the middle of the city and I'm afraid of a lot of lead, otherwise they would have typed.
P. s. And I kept thinking how people drink this coffee (and in stories about the war, coffee from acorns is often mentioned), since the acorns themselves are bitter! And then it's about heat treatment! Live forever, as my grandmother says, learn a century, you will die a fool.
But pigs and wild boars eat them raw ... a mystery

[Anastasia]

Anastasia, Thanks for the kind words. Eeeeh, it is difficult for the inhabitants of the metropolis. Nowhere to take acorns.

But pigs and wild boars eat them raw ... a mystery

No, people can't eat raw !!! I read it on the internet.

and I kept thinking, how do people drink this coffee

I met the information that acorns are added to almost all instant coffee, and ground coffee too (I wonder where they get them in such quantities?) A lady working in a large company selling coffee shared this information. Naturally, this is not indicated in the composition. So, it is likely that when we buy coffee, we pay not only for it, but also for the acorns.
P.S. for which I bought the Old, for which I sell ...

[Mistletoe]

Class! And if you put them in the microwave in order to open up ?? for a few minutes?

I would not conduct such experiments. There is a lot of moisture in the acorns - it can jerk - mom don't worry. This experience touched me very edge. My ex-mother-in-law is a person, to put it mildly, very economical, but what is there - an outright gunk! Someone told her that acorns and chestnuts can be used to heat the stove - to throw a scoop or two on hot coals, and they keep warm for a very long time. She wandered into the woods great, picked up a couple of sacks of one and the other (thrifty, damn it) He turned the stove scary, cracks went all the way to the attic, and this was in the middle of winter
A Mistletoe I constantly admire! With such a master, no sanctions are terrible! I myself am sometimes creative, but to you, my dear, I am very far away!

Oh, Tan, it's good that I wrote about Mikra! I threw mine out a long time ago. And creativity, yes, in our village they say: a bad head does not give rest.)))

I just thought - in the oven you can just open the door a little, and the extra steam will come out, but with a micra such a number will not work! Why did you throw yours out? I'm nowhere without her! The old one was covered with a copper basin, as they calculated the repair for me - I left it to that repairman, and bought myself a new one with that money.In the morning - grace, at 5 in the morning I am not at all drawn to culinary feats, so I cook breakfast in the evening (almost always), and in the morning, opening one eye, I warm it up in a micron and feed my husband Well, I melt chocolate, I make different glazes in it, cream custard - so as not to stand over the stove, I got used to cooking cheese - I don't remember everything

Yesterday I calcined in Princesk, in two tabs, not all opened, but cleaned normally. I was reluctant to turn on the oven. At the end I opened it, all the steam has evaporated. At first I was afraid, I thought I would shoot, covered it with paper, then took it off.

custard cream - so as not to stand over the stove

I love to make a cream in it, it's so easy, thanks who prompted.

No, I didn't do anything in it, I just warmed it up. I threw it out because it broke. Closed with a glass of milk and could not open. And I never regretted it. In the mornings, we have warm porridge made from slow lakes.) I warm milk in a cappuccino maker, melt chocolate in a milk cooker on the stove. I have a tabletop single-burner.

[Anya]

Anya, you brave lady! Someone recently wrote about chestnuts (which are edible) in the micra - it blew great!

[Scarlett]

Scarlett, annnushka27, can I alone do not know how, well tell me about the custard cream in the microwave !!!

[Mistletoe]

I strongly hope that Mistletoe We will not be chased by flooding - but she is kind, I know (a licking smiley). Tanyush, I beat the yolks with a whisk with sugar, add flour, grind, and immediately dilute with milk (everything by eye, but you can also according to the recipe - the main principle of preparation) - and in the micra for a couple of minutes, took it out, again whipped it with a whisk - and so several times until the desired thickness and until the smell of raw flour disappears, then add vanilla

[Scarlett]

Scarlett, Tanyusha, Thank you! And I learned about coffee, at the same time about the cream! Mistletoe, well, I'm sorry!

I won't chase, I'm busy for now .. Lenka has uncovered her howitzer in the next topic, I need to keep the defense.)

And I am even ashamed to write that I dried it in it ... Well, okay ... Stones and earth ... Disinfected ... For transplanting indoor flowers. Nothing, withstood, did not shoot ...

Well, here I am now with acorns. I typed, washed ...

are now in the oven

[Anya]

Anya, great! Didn't you cut them? I can't see it from my phone. I will wait for impressions.)

But I don't, Anya! I'll have to carry you a bag of acorns. If you come here, don't forget to grab them. YOU ARE WELCOME!

I'll have to carry you a bag of acorns. If you come here

Lyudochka, of course, I'll bring it, if I get ready ... The baby is still sick, and her husband is working, but I can't get there on my own. So as soon as I get ready, I will bring it)))

Didn't you cut them?

Ksyusha, I haven't cut it yet. I just warmed it up, but now I take off the skin and cut it

Lyudochka, of course I'll bring it if I get ready ...

Thank you, Anya! I knew this...
Get well there. They also came up with - to get sick ...
And come, even without acorns ... I'm always glad to see you ...