http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/1988-09-01/A-Fall-Field-Guide-to-Nuts.aspxA Handbook for autumn's nut's, acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, chinquapins, black walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts, pecans, pine nuts, tree and leaf identification guide.
Snip Acorns
No matter how many mothers have told their children otherwise, acorns are not poisonous; they are one of the oldest foods known to man. Evidence of their consumption has been found amid the debris in Paleolithic cave dwellings. They were the staff of life for many Native American groups, who ground the nuts into meal for bread and mush. The Pilgrims found baskets of roasted acorns hidden in underground chambers and, noting the nuts' similarity in taste to that of chestnuts, welcomed oak mast into their diet. A wise move: Acorn kernels provide a complete vegetable protein, up to 707o by weight in some species. More than half their bulk consists of energy-rich carbohydrates..........
