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Posted by Marcella Peek on Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:22 AM Post subject: Re: Candy
In article <fVdtg.156700$k%3.146639@dukeread12>, "teleflora" <teleflora@hotmail.com> wrote:
[quote:18074938dd]To heck with candy, I have eaten $10 worth of Ranier cherries in the last 3 days. Omigod, they are so
good. I wait for them all year. On second thought, I bet they would be even better dipped in Chocolate. Hmmmmmm
Cindy [/quote:18074938dd] One year we went and picked lots of bing cherries. We couldn't eat them fast enough so I
pitted the rest and put them in the dehydrator. Yummy but after a bit we tired of them so I tossed the remainders in
the fridge and they were promptly forgotten. Until Christmas time. We were dipping dried pears in bittersweet
Scharffen-Berger chocolate. Ran out of pears before we ran out of chocolate so I started digging for more dippables
and found the cherries. Oh My Gosh. Those dried cherries dipped in the dark chocolate. So good! marcella
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View entire thread: OT Nuts
Posted by frood on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:44 AM Post subject: Re: OT Nuts
I saw an epidode of Good Eats that showed how to make a food dehydrator with a cardboard box and a fan. Something like
this might work for you. Or there's the British-style drying cupboard, usually built over the hot water heater. --
Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-STUFF email address to reply "NightMist"
<nightmiste@gmail.com> wrote in message news:44b97e93.1440730@news.madbbs.com... [quote:de86ccc887] We have
mostly ignored the big old butternut tree at the corner of our kitchen for years. Just snarled at it for drawing
squirrels to us. DH has decided that this year we should make a serious go at getting some nuts from it. Now that is
definitely a fine notion, butternuts are a good rich nut. You might call them white walnuts or oilnuts where you live.
Normal procedure with husking butternuts is to dry them, kick the dried husks off, give them a wash, and dry them again.
If you have to, and you have strong hands and good gloves, you can strip the undried husks off like you would black
walnuts. Thing is, we live in town. So we don't have a lot of space for drying, nor a proper drying shed. I'm thinking
about putting together an old style indoor slat and cheesecloth dryer, I have a design for one in one of my cookbooks.
I'm not sure how much that will do in terms of finished nuts though. If I put them on the kitchen roof the squirrels
will make off with them, to say nothing of the mad scramble if it rains. I have joked with DH that we had just ought to
crawl up into the kitchen ceiling and nab the ones the squirrels harvest. That bit of space makes a fine nut drying
place and the squirrels figured that out before ever we moved in! In fact last time we had butternuts off that tree was
when they replaced my kitchen roof. The numbwits that did the work gave me no warning and didn't come in and take down
the suspended ceiling tiles before stripping the old roof. So the first time they dropped anything it came right
through my ceiling knocking a couple tiles askew, and letting what felt like a gross ton of butternuts fall directly on
me where I was rolling out pie dough. While I was "speaking gently to them" ( in terms that would make a
sailor pale), the DDs gathered up all the nuts, and they and DH had a fine old time while he taught them how to tell the
eatable ones from the rest. So anyway, if anybody has any clever walnut husking techniques they could share, I would
appreciate it. NightMist just nattering on today -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat.[/quote:de86ccc887]
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Posted by NightMist on Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:26 PM Post subject: Re: OT Nuts
You, Georg, and Jessamy, have given me suggestions that when combined yield the slat and cheesecloth drier. It is a
loose sort of a box with slide out slat shelves hung over the stove in a cheesecloth bag. Even Roberta's suggestion of
going vertical comes in as the shelves are stacked several high. I reckon I was on the right track after all. I just
have to sort out a safe place to hang them. NightMist On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:44:59 GMT, "frood"
<froodbuffy@STUFFGriffinsFlight.com> wrote: [quote:49b14c6eae]I saw an epidode of Good Eats that showed how to
make a food dehydrator with a cardboard box and a fan. Something like this might work for you. Or there's the British-
style drying cupboard, usually built over the hot water heater. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
De-STUFF email address to reply "NightMist" <nightmiste@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:44b97e93.1440730@news.madbbs.com... We have mostly ignored the big old butternut tree at the corner of our kitchen
for years. Just snarled at it for drawing squirrels to us. DH has decided that this year we should make a serious go at
getting some nuts from it. Now that is definitely a fine notion, butternuts are a good rich nut. You might call them
white walnuts or oilnuts where you live. Normal procedure with husking butternuts is to dry them, kick the dried husks
off, give them a wash, and dry them again. If you have to, and you have strong hands and good gloves, you can strip the
undried husks off like you would black walnuts. Thing is, we live in town. So we don't have a lot of space for drying,
nor a proper drying shed. I'm thinking about putting together an old style indoor slat and cheesecloth dryer, I have a
design for one in one of my cookbooks. I'm not sure how much that will do in terms of finished nuts though. If I put
them on the kitchen roof the squirrels will make off with them, to say nothing of the mad scramble if it rains. I have
joked with DH that we had just ought to crawl up into the kitchen ceiling and nab the ones the squirrels harvest. That
bit of space makes a fine nut drying place and the squirrels figured that out before ever we moved in! In fact last time
we had butternuts off that tree was when they replaced my kitchen roof. The numbwits that did the work gave me no
warning and didn't come in and take down the suspended ceiling tiles before stripping the old roof. So the first time
they dropped anything it came right through my ceiling knocking a couple tiles askew, and letting what felt like a gross
ton of butternuts fall directly on me where I was rolling out pie dough. While I was "speaking gently to
them" ( in terms that would make a sailor pale), the DDs gathered up all the nuts, and they and DH had a fine old
time while he taught them how to tell the eatable ones from the rest. So anyway, if anybody has any clever walnut
husking techniques they could share, I would appreciate it. NightMist just nattering on today -- The wolf that
understands fire has much to eat. [/quote:49b14c6eae] -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat.
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