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- From: jeff@maggot.gg.caltech.edu (Jeff Goldsmith)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
- Subject: Re: Roasting Chesnuts ???
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 19:34:57 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In <BzroCL.44n@fulcrum.co.uk> rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor) writes:
-
- >In article <4911@wet.UUCP> sritacco@wet.UUCP (Steve Ritacco) writes:
- >>Hi,
- >>
- >>Can anyone tell me how to roast chesnuts so that the inner skin does
- >>not stick to the nuts?
-
- I cut the "X" all the way through the skin and into the nut.
- A bread knife (big and serrated) works best. Then, if the skin
- does stick, just split the shell and pull out the nut with a
- nut awl or a fork.
- --Jeff
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