[Cajunlady]

I found this information on Grandpappy's Basic Recipes and thought it might come in handy.

Save the brown water from the first boiling of acorns to remove tannic acid. The brown water should be stored in the refrigerator. With the passage of time a mold will form on top of the water and will need to reboil to kill the mold. Refrigerate the water again until needed. The brown water may be used in the following ways.

Laundry Detergent: Two cups of the brown water can be used as laundry detergent for one load of clothes. Your clothes will smell very good but lighter clothes and white clothes will take on a tan tint.

Traditional Herbal Home Remedies: The brown water has both antiseptic and antiviral properties.
1. It can be used to wash the skin to ease the discomfort of skin rashes, burns and small cuts.
2. It can be used externally to help treat hemorrhoids.
3. Pour some into ice cube trays and freeze it. Then rub it on poison ivy blisters. It soothes and heals the blisters and helps reduce the itching. It is very effective on about 95% of the people who tried it and the poison ivy is cured in three days. The cold ice helps to soothe the inflamed tissues.

Hide Tanning

The brown water can be used in the process of animal hide tanning. Just soak the clean scraped animal hide in the water. The reason the bitter ingredient in acorns is called tannic acid is because it was originally used to tan animal hides.

[cowgirlup]

Interesting stuff!

I like that Grandpappy's site. Lots of good info there.

[Cajunlady]

Originally Posted by cowgirlup

Interesting stuff!

I like that Grandpappy's site. Lots of good info there.

I agree and gained lots of knowledge from him which he does keep updated.

[SwampRat1]

great post cajunlady. i knew about using it for tanning, but had no idea of the other used for it. thanks

[Cajunlady]

[quote=SwampRat1;54174]great post cajunlady. i knew about using it for tanning, but had no idea of the other used for it. thanks[/QUO

Yes I found this article and since it has multiple uses thought it would be good to share with others. It was something I wasn't familiar with and acorns are bountiful.

It's great hearing from you too. How is life treating you? Is there any item of luxury or necessity I can maybe send you to perhpas ease your discomforts in the Land of UGH? Let me know. Take care and God Bless!

[Pat/Rick]

Yet another site to look at. My list of favorites has been growing since I found this site.

[Cajunlady]

Originally Posted by Pat/Rick

Yet another site to look at. My list of favorites has been growing since I found this site.

Glad to hear you're enjoying this site, it's the best!

[River Rat]

I've never heard of that site before, but I am one of the new guys here. I'll look it up, sounds like a great place to learn some stuff. Thanks!

[River Rat]

I found it, thanks for the heads up. Looks like a lot of info. on it.

[Cajunlady]

Originally Posted by Pat/Rick

Yet another site to look at. My list of favorites has been growing since I found this site.

Let me blow you away with another one. Do a Google search on Pioneer Life. This site has much info from our ancestors and great recipes to boot.