#flax — Public Fediverse posts

I found this great piece about #AcornBread -- written by a friend who I learned to make acorn bread from!

by Chris Knapp

"In autumn, all over the world, something wonderful happens: The acorns fall.

"The oak seed, which once sustained the bulk of human civilization, is now largely ignored as a food. Not so at our #Koviashuvik Local Living School (in #TempleME), where every fall my family, friends, apprentices and I spend three wonderful mornings crawling around in the nearby red oak grove picking up acorns. We are not playing; we are making a living and playing.

"This article offers a practical guide to processing acorns, a glance at the crop’s agricultural implications, and a chance to change the world – for as with any food or product, its conscious production and consumption create powerful opportunities for social and environmental change.

Using Acorns

"My family eats acorns in a variety of ways and uses 200 pounds of acorn flour a year. All our acorns come from the red oak, Quercus rubra, as that is our local oak. All acorns – whether from red or white oaks – are edible and all acorns contain enough tannin that leaching is a necessity.

"Our daily bread is a delicious blend of 60 percent acorn and 40 percent sourdough #spelt from the Webb Family Farm in #PittstonME. We make #AcornOatmeal #porridge twice a week for breakfast with 50 to 75 percent acorn. My kids, ages 4 and 2, eat it right up!

"We make biscuits and cookies. I like a dense, 95 percent acorn flat bread held together with 5 percent soaked ground #flax. For a basic biscuit recipe that will please anyone, combine 2 cups of acorn flour with 1 cup of oat flour, add 2 tablespoons of good fat and 1/2 teaspoon salt. (For fat we use Maine-grown sunflower oil or lard.) Add water to make a moist but not runny batter. Form the batter into biscuits and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 375 F. Will Bonsall ate a whole bowl of these crackers when we shared them with him."

Learn more:
https://www.mofga.org/resources/recipes/acorn-bread/

#SolarPunkSunday #AlternativeGrains #Acorns #WildEdibles #Foraging #MOFGA #Maine #FoodSecurity

Affordable High-Protein Alternatives to Eggs: Beans, Dairy, Grains https://www.diningandcooking.com/1891557/affordable-high-protein-alternatives-to-eggs-beans-dairy-grains/ ##magnesium ##zinc #breakfast #dairy #dose #Egg #EnoughProtein #flax #HumbleBean #meal #NancyClark #nutrient #nutrition #Seed #variety #YogurtParfait

Deep Learning with Jax
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-jax
#ycombinator #neural_networks #Python #Google #Flax #Haiku #gradient_processing #optimization #numerical #computations #federated_learning #parallelized #distributed #primitives #differentiable

Deep Learning with Jax
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-jax
#ycombinator #neural_networks #Python #Google #Flax #Haiku #gradient_processing #optimization #numerical #computations #federated_learning #parallelized #distributed #primitives #differentiable

Deep Learning with Jax
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-jax
#ycombinator #neural_networks #Python #Google #Flax #Haiku #gradient_processing #optimization #numerical #computations #federated_learning #parallelized #distributed #primitives #differentiable

Deep Learning with Jax
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-jax
#ycombinator #neural_networks #Python #Google #Flax #Haiku #gradient_processing #optimization #numerical #computations #federated_learning #parallelized #distributed #primitives #differentiable

Did you know there is/was a museum of flax??

I asked for a lecture on #flax a while ago, and we're going to have it today!1!

We look at stunning and fine laces in museums, and you can't even get linen thread that thin and fine today. Was it processing? Genetics? Lost skills? What's the deal?

CELEBRATING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF FLAX

#IOLI lecture today, for members. #BobbinLace #NeedleLace #TextileHistory

https://lacelectures.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-lectures/sylvie-de-coster-9-2023