While it's great that The Old Farmers ÃÛÌÒÁµÈË is promoting acorn consumption, the directions get it completely wrong.
Once you crack and remove the skins from the acorns you should puree them (assuming they're not dried yet--resoak if you dried them earlier or risk destroying your food processor).
Then you should cold leach the acorns: soaking the ground acorns in a large container, changing the water regularly over several days until the acorn flour is no longer bitter to taste (the water will never get clear but it will be very light in color at that point). Boiling the acorns cooks them, making them unsuitable as flour (though fine for adding to soups). Boiling also reduces their nutritional value and uses a lot of energy. If you do boil--you'll still need to grind first, and you'll need to boil multiple times to fully leach the tannins (so you'll need at least two pots of water boiling simultaneously).
Once leached, drain the flour and put it in the fridge and cook with it over the next week or two. You can cook muffins, pancakes, breads, etc. just remember to mix acorn flour with wheat flour for foods you want to rise: for example if a recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, use 1.5 cups of wheat and 0.5 cups of acorn flour--with that proportion you won't need to make any other changes to the recipe). At higher proportions you'll need to increase baking powder. Enjoy your acorns! And remember: if you find any acorn weevils, those are edible too!
While it's great that The Old Farmers ÃÛÌÒÁµÈË is promoting acorn consumption, the directions get it completely wrong.
Once you crack and remove the skins from the acorns you should puree them (assuming they're not dried yet--resoak if you dried them earlier or risk destroying your food processor).
Then you should cold leach the acorns: soaking the ground acorns in a large container, changing the water regularly over several days until the acorn flour is no longer bitter to taste (the water will never get clear but it will be very light in color at that point). Boiling the acorns cooks them, making them unsuitable as flour (though fine for adding to soups). Boiling also reduces their nutritional value and uses a lot of energy. If you do boil--you'll still need to grind first, and you'll need to boil multiple times to fully leach the tannins (so you'll need at least two pots of water boiling simultaneously).
Once leached, drain the flour and put it in the fridge and cook with it over the next week or two. You can cook muffins, pancakes, breads, etc. just remember to mix acorn flour with wheat flour for foods you want to rise: for example if a recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, use 1.5 cups of wheat and 0.5 cups of acorn flour--with that proportion you won't need to make any other changes to the recipe). At higher proportions you'll need to increase baking powder. Enjoy your acorns! And remember: if you find any acorn weevils, those are edible too!