rubbing my nuts

[OWC Jamie]

C'mon now. Skinning hazelnuts.
I'm tempted to chop 'em up skins and all.
Roast 'em, blanch 'em, there must be an easier way.
Like use almonds.

[DP]

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?

[Numo]

I thought hazelnuts had a hard shell.

[davemchine]

My wife eats walnuts with her breakfast so every fall I collect freshly fallen walnuts and get cracking. I find it enjoyable and relaxing at night while I watch tv. Easier to buy yes, but I enjoy it.

No idea how to crack hazelnuts faster. I used to have a supply. They are delicious.

[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

[ztirffritz]

My buddy has a small hazelnut grove. They harvest a bunch of nuts, and roast them, I believe, with the skins on. I think that they spend ALOT of time shelling them though.

[rz]

I found a store this weekend called Bulk Nation. They have all different kinds of nuts already shelled. They had hazlenuts, and I bought some (also bought Brazil nuts, cashews, macadamias and almonds). I liked that they had raw, roasted, salted and unsalted varieties of several of the nuts to choose from. I prefer unsalted, either raw or roasted. Great snacks for work.

[cbelt3]

Hazelnuts are best in the packaging that Gott intended them to have...

[mrbigstuff]

the way I have done this in the past: roast hazelnuts (should always be roasted, IMO) to desired color, put in tea towel, rub and shake. this takes a few times, and makes a slight mess, but works.


recipe hint: add roasted (and skinned, of course) hazelnuts to chocolate chip cookies for a certain "wow" factor.

[Wags]

At least get it right. They're filberts. :RollingEyesSmiley5: