Subject: Re: [permaculture] hazelnuts make good gruel
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:33:25 -0400
Rain Tenaqiya wrote:
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Recently, however, I have discovered the joys of hazelnut
(filbert, cobb nut) mush. Simply take a couple handfuls of nuts, put them in a blender with some water for about 20
seconds,
then boil for two to five minutes, adding fruit (Asian pears and persimmons are good this time of year) and a little
honey, plus a pinch of salt.
The result is amazingly creamy, hearty, and delicious, much better than oatmeal or wheat-based gruels. You don't even
have to add soymilk or whatever.
Walnuts are too dense for this kind of treatment, but I can eat a lot of
hazelnuts this way.
Hazelnuts are 13% protein, 61% fat, and are high in Ca, Cu, Mg, Mn, B
vitamins, and vitamin E.
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Another easy and effective way to process nuts (without cooking them & losing valuable heat-intolerant oils) to make
cereals of acceptable texture is to grind them in a hand crank grain mill with steel burs. The Corona mill is perfect
for this and you can clamp it to a tabletop. For larger nuts you may need to run them through twice to get particle size
down. Mush can be created this way. Try sesame and you get an oily mush. Hazelnuts can be turned into mush too, without
cooking.