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Old 16-10-2007, 04:59 PM
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What's the best way of storing hazelnuts?
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I think just keep them dry
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Like most nuts, they keep better unshelled. If you shell them you can freeze them to prevent them from going rancid, which they do when the oil goes off.
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Old 17-10-2007, 03:16 PM
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I have mammoth nut cracking sessions then dry them in the dehydrator and put them in jars and also keep some shelled green ones in the freezer for recipes needing green nuts.
Then I get a huge bag of nut skins and shells to mulch the garden.
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Green ones are dropping off our tree in France- in the cellar s a bag of nuts from last year which are much sweeter- they were left there ( +/- 14 oC for a year in a plastic bag!!!!)
Personally I have no idea how to store them- Just suggest you keep them dark/cool/frost free and well away from squirrels!!!

Last years are much sweeter/tastier than the fresh ones...suggest you store them a while????
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They are also nice roasted and salted and stored in jars.Makes a change from peanuts!
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Then I get a huge bag of nut skins and shells to mulch the garden.
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OK with hazels but don't do it with the husks of walnuts - they are toxic to many plants. If you look around the base of a walnut there are no weeds or grass
I thought I was going to have some lovely stuff to top up my compost bins until I did a bit of googling!
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They're nice stored in honey! Don't know if you have to do anything to them first though.
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OK with hazels but don't do it with the husks of walnuts - they are toxic to many plants. If you look around the base of a walnut there are no weeds or grass
I thought I was going to have some lovely stuff to top up my compost bins until I did a bit of googling!
Plenty of weeds and grass around the base of my walnut, I'm afraid. No nuts - just plenty of grass and weeds.
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I have mammoth nut cracking sessions then dry them in the dehydrator and put them in jars and also keep some shelled green ones in the freezer for recipes needing green nuts.
Then I get a huge bag of nut skins and shells to mulch the garden.
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Thanks, Sue; how long in the dehy, and what temp?
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Plenty of weeds and grass around the base of my walnut, I'm afraid. No nuts - just plenty of grass and weeds.
That's because there are no nuts! It the stuff in the outer husk of the nut (which goes black and icky as it disintegrates) that is toxic to plants.
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You need to pickle them in strong alcohol, obviously,

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I do them on medium and keep going till they taste right...nice and dry and crunchy. Not very accurate - sorry.
Flummery - can't get English walnuts so don't buy them because of the food miles. That's why I get so many cob/hazel nuts, locally produced and organic if I'm lucky, and use them instead of other imported nuts in cooking. and I can't plant one on the allotment sadly they do grow into full sized trees?
When my own cobnut tree gets going....


One enterprising farmer offered them shelled and dipped in chocolate, only the once, when i asked again, he said it took so much effort they'd never done it again but must have a go myself some time, they were delicious.
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