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Blue Oak Woodland
Paregien Ranch
March 20, 2009
Native uses: acorns soaked, shelled and dried - meats ground into a meal or flour that was leached in sand several times over. Cedar and Fir twigs often used in the leaching process as a sieve and for flavor. Soup, pudding and bread were made from the flour. Mold from the flour was cultivated and used to heal boils and other inflamations.
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