Acorn Milk

Three Strand silver tone necklace. Silver tone oak leaf charms, silver tone acorns, and white and silver pearls. 

Nuts to the “Iroquois” diet:

"Great quantities were consumed during the nut season and quantities were stored for winter use. The nut season to the Iroquois was one of the happiest periods of the year especially for the young people to whom fell the work of gathering most of the nuts. The women however often went in companies when serious business was meant for with the failure of other crops, nuts formed an important food source. The nut season was called o’wadadwisaho."
           
Hickories, walnut, butternut, chestnut, hazelnut, beech, and acorns were among the tree nuts eaten by Haudenosaunee people . Oaks with the most edible acorns include swamp white oak and white oak, although red and chestnut oak were also used . People crushed the nutmeats of hickory, walnut, butternut and chestnut and mixed them with cornmeal for bread, or blended them into hominy or corn soup. Hickory, walnut, and other nuts were pounded, boiled in water, and the oil skimmed off and later added to bread, potatoes, pumpkin, squash. Moravian visitors to Onondaga in 1752 describe being “entertained” with “nut oil and salt” ; during an earlier journey, they refreshed themselves with “nut milk.”