Harvesting Wild Acorns Part 2 - But Acorns Taste Bitter!
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JoyceM gave me the idea for this post. Please choose English words from the following text that you would like to study more or review more in Spanish. This will help to improve our Spanish, long-term memories.
JoyceM me dio la idea para este mensaje. Por favor elige palabras en inglés del texto siguiente sólo que te gustaría estudiar más o revisar más en español. Esto ayudará a mejorar a nuestras memorias a largo plazo de español.
Un ejemplo: tasted awful
sabor a muy malo
Harvesting Wild Acorns Part 2
-- by Jackie Clay
But Acorns Taste Bitter!
One of the first things I learned as a little girl harvesting acorns was that they tasted awful. Unfortunately, many acorns do taste bitter. This is because they contain tannin, a bitter substance in oaks which is used to tan leather. Real pucker power here. Some varieties of acorns contain more tannin than others. They range from the Emory oak of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, which is so mild it can be used without processing, to some black oaks with very bitter acorns, requiring lengthy processing to render edible.
Generally, the best acorns to harvest are those of the white oaks, such as the swamp oak, Oregon white oak, and burr oak, as they contain less bitter tannin. Luckily, nearly all acorns can be made usable with natural processing which renders them nutty and sweet..
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renders them nutty and sweet
los hace nuez y dulce
black oaks - robles negros
One of the first things I learned as a little girl...
Una de las primeros cosas que aprendí como una pequeña niña...
El famoso jamón ibérico es el jamon curado al aire fresco de los cerdos de la raza ' pata negra' que pastan bajo las encimas de las dehesas en Extremadura y Andalucía, y comen las bellotas . Resulta un jamón estupendo.
Iberian ham has been air dried and comes from the pigs of the breed ' Black legs' which graze below the oaks on the pastures of the estates in Extremadura and Andalusía and eat the acorns. The end product is a splendid ham.
tanino - tannin
Un tanino es una planta astringente y sabor amarga. Los taninos se pueden convertir en polvo blanco. También se pueden convertir a vino.
A tannin is an astringent and bitter plant. Tannins can be made into powder. They can also be converted to wine.
