"Jane Viking Swanson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi All, DH got a bunch of edible chestnuts a couple weeks ago. THe spiny
>pods opened up to reveal the brown nuts. Then he broke some open and has
>been eating the raw ones and giving me some.
(snip)
>I ate some of the roasted ones and I still don't like them very much. They
>are so mealy in texture. DH is still eating them. I do like the delicate
>flavor but I had expected something crunchy.
Hi, Jane & all,
Some chestnut research has been done near me using Chinese hybrid
chestnuts. When we first moved to our house, we found trees on the farm
next door and got some of the nuts to plant. Our nuts are now small trees
that have just started to bear in the last year or two. Time flies!
I have to agree on the texture. The farm down the road that is producing
them now had a charcoal grill and was roasting them when the closest little
town had a mini-festival after Thanksgiving. They smell good, but the
texture is like garbanzo beans.
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/
Ravelry ID: alwen
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