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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: banditpony on October 06, 2018, 03:50:28 PM
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:lol: So my new house has chestnut trees, and I love chestnuts!
I have like ~5 gallons of them (with more falling from the trees daily). However. I was reading how they don't keep AT ALL. I'm so bummed.
Sooo... besides roasting (which I love :drool: ) What else can I do with them?
Does anyone have some good recipes?
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Not much personal experience, but I'm fairly sure they can be dried and used for flour? We collected a handful, peeled them and left them on the kitchen counter, and they're now hard as a rock. IIRC one got a mushy spot and got tossed, but the rest seem fine. Using an oven to speed drying probably would have been smarter, but it was more of a curiosity thing.
Chestnuts don't have any gluten, so you'd have to add that or use them for recipes that don't require it.
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I don't have the right equipment to make flour unfortunately.
I can't imagine flour being able to keep, when the nut won't keep?
ETA: o.o you peeled them but didn't cook them??
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Yeah, we just left them out on the table. They turned into rocks. Low humidity I guess?
Chestnuts spoil fast because of their high water content presumably, so taking out the water makes them much more shelf-stable.
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Check out this link for chestnut flour: https://www.backyardforager.com/chestnut-flour-easy-make/
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Check out this link for chestnut flour: https://www.backyardforager.com/chestnut-flour-easy-make/
^_^; Thanks, but as I mentioned I don't have the equipment for making flour. I need a $100 dry grains container for the vitamix. No coffee grinder or spice grinder in this house.
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So far I figure I will try a dish where I simmer them with butter and cilantro.
And two kinds of Japanese rice/chestnut dishes. (One normal rice, one sticky rice)
I wanna try to make that paste that goes on mont blancs and do lil cupcakes.