rubbing my nuts

[OWC Jamie]

DP wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to just buy them processed the way you want? Is this a specific recipe you're going thru all this for?

It would be easier but none of the stores around here but one even have hazelnuts. Almonds skinned,chopped, whole are pretty easy to find. The healthy food store here that used to sell it already ground closed in the recession.
Like almonds, hazelnut skins are bitter and for the same reason you remove the (almond)skins for marzipan it is best to remove hazelnut skins.

hazelnut cake with a brandy,pear slices, ricotta (mascarpone if I had some, another hard thing to find here) filling.
cake needs two cups of hazelnut meal and 6 tablespoons of flour