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Recipe

Acorn dough

An acorn flour dough, leached of tannin, bound with flour. Produces a pale buff material with a warm toasted smell.

Every A New Field recipe has been run in a domestic kitchen or community hall. Read the safety notes before you start and adapt for your venue.

What you’ll make

Light tan, slightly granular, firm when dry.

Flexible slots (flex around your material)

  • Starch nut

    Starch (whole plant)200g

    Starchy tubers, seeds or nuts. Needs grating, cooking or leaching.

    Examples Acorns (leached), chestnuts

    Note — Leach in 4-6 water changes.

Fixed ingredients

  • Plain flour · 100g
  • Water · 100ml

Equipment

  • Saucepan
  • sieve
  • muslin
  • oven.

Refinements and variations

  • Skip leaching for a tannin-rich but inedible sculptural dough.

Source notes

Traditional foraging practice across Korea, North America and Europe.