Sometimes the thick paste is made into cakes and baked on hot rocks.

One of these cakes, when rolled in paper, will in a short time saturate it with oil.

This acorn food is probably more nutritious than any of the cereals.
INDIAN DOGS.
The Indian dogs, of which every family had several, are as fond of the acorn food as their owners.

These dogs are made useful in treeing wild-cats, California lions and gray squirrels, and are very expert in catching ground squirrels by intercepting them when away from their burrows, and when the Indians drown them out in the early spring by turning water from the flooded streams into their holes.
As far as can be learned, dogs were about the only domestic animals which the Yosemites, and other adjacent tribes of Indians, kept for use before the country was settled by the white people.
NUTS AND BERRIES.
Pine nuts were another important article of food, and were much prized by the Indians.

They are very palatable and nutritious, and are also greatly relished by white people whenever they can be obtained.