Making Acorn Bread for Survival Part 4

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hey sir since bob got a big piece of birch bark and make an acorn center stay tuned okay so what I'm doing is I'm going I'm going to take off the outer layers uh-huh yeah you pull that from it very nice hold this birch bark that way you pull up so I can reveal the clean bark underneath okay so I'm doing now is I'm just scraping the bark just so I can get down the layer and just scrape it off all the dirt and everything from the outside of the tree so I can get down a layer or it's nice and clean was it Ali this fluffy bark scrapings is possibly the best tinder on the planet with a fella rock hey touch it you sure we can play on it touch it oh yeah if you put a spark on that from the fella rod it will light up really easily to make fire right so now I have full surface clean I'm going to do now is just take a smooth River Rock it's not really necessary it's fine but I'm going to just rub it a little bit with the green and now will help really make it nice and fine nice and clean and help rub off any little pieces it still be hanging out and just basically just help polish it and there we have it so now I have a nice channel right here let's throw some a cone on here and see how it reacts

alright so the purpose of an acorn sifter is that inside the acorn that I pounded the first time there's large granules and it's very fine powder and it's all just mixed in so what you do is you use the sifter to separate the granules from the powder okay sure wait come here come put a little on here grab some of this and put it on here perfect thank you a little helper all right so the goal here is to figure out ways to move this to try to separate the chunks from the powder

all right check this out so all along the side I large granules all here all along this side is very fine powder so that's where after where after moving it in a way to separate into we got switch sides actually

all right so basically what I have on here is only fine powder see if I can get a light on here for you you can see the sake on this is very fine powder it's basically a corn dust see that very fine dust so what I did was while I was tapping in a one end that with a slight angle down the small pieces the powder was traveling up and over to the side this Ridge right here while the large chunks rolled down the hill ended up in here so you can see my bowl I have large granules I have pebbles and here and all the fine powder stayed on here and this stuff is like it's like pollen so all this doesn't need to be worked anymore it's been separated this can go right to the leaching process so then you sift more and then you just keep working on grinding the large pebbles a lot of granules and once these are ground up they're either gonna be good to go or you throw them on the sifter shake them around get the granules out of that again and you keep working on it that's the way to get the highest quality a cornflower possible so got some really fine powder my motor here just add this as well

Disko obviously be any container I'm just using my my water as a another container doesn't really matter what it is okay so it's not completed a corn sifter you can see really simple it's a big piece of birch bark and all I did was scrape off the layer and I through to make it clean and I threw some a going on there and I just just just tap it at an angle and shift it the grain that was on there and it's separated you know the grains ran down the granules ran down and the powder came up that's all there is to now this is how we make the quote the highest quality a cornbread you can you want to have the finest degree of powder that you can make you know and very very simple to do it's just a piece of birch bark natives used a lots of different materials is dependent on the local resources that you had but they always preferred to sift the a lawn and they would just sift it so the granules let it back in the bowl just like it did for me and then they can continue using the motor and pestle and pounding it turning into powder throw back on the sifter and just keep working on that and put in in perfecting the powder and they will just keep collecting the powder putting it aside for the leaching process now if you don't break down a coin to the smallest particle you can you'll have a higher percentage of bitterness higher percentage of tannins so that's why this is a very valuable tool if you plan on making a lot of ACORN and you plan on making a lot of acorn of the highest quality you can this we mention it's a bauble appreciate view scones use for see in the next one take