Pine nuts, how to clean this delicacy?

My favorite treat for my childhood is pine nuts. How to clean and how to extract them, we knew from an early age. In the autumn everyone was looking forward to ripening cones, ran into the woods, knocked on the tree in the hope that a few pieces would fall from above. If the boys could climb onto the cedar and pick up cones, then it was a common joy. Immature cedar cones are very strong, resinous, and just brush their hands and get to nuts can not. But we, the children of the forest, knew very well how to peel the pine nuts. To do this, you need to build a fire and fry cones, like fresh potatoes in the ashes of a cooling fire. The resin burned out in the fire, the cone opened, and it was possible to regale with milk nuts.

But the most delicious cedar cones are cooked. Their fragrant smell is the smell of childhood. To make bumps, you need to stock up an old bucket or pot, put the harvested crop there, fill it with water, and top with a layer of fresh green grass. Now you need to build a fire and hang a bucket over the fire. It remains quite a bit, the water will boil and wash away all the resin that will foam and soak into the grass, and the cones will turn pink-gray, tasty, smelling, clean. Very tasty, useful, and nothing that hands and face in the resin. Today, coming home, I'm happy to look at grown cedars. Again, like many years ago, we will go into the forest, shishkarit - to harvest pine nuts. How to clean the cones, we remember very well.

This product has gained popularity not only in our homeland, but all over the world. Today pine nuts can be purchased in any supermarket. When making a purchase, remember that not all nuts have got to the store from the Siberian taiga. Large lots of nuts come from China (Manchu cedar) and from Italy (nuts of the Italian pine pine). Peeled pine nuts are not allowed to be sold in the retail chain, because the product contains a large amount of oil and quickly spoils. Packaged products have very limited shelf life and, using a rancid, nutty, rancid stuff, you can spoil your mood and health for a long time.

Therefore, in order to protect yourself and your loved ones from using a poor-quality product, you should buy the harvest cones of the current year or unpeeled nuts, and enjoy a really useful product. Our ancestors also knew how to quickly clean pine nuts - they just need to click.

Clicking nuts is pleasant but dangerous for teeth. It's only the squirrels get all the fun, but we better pour the pine nuts for 3-5 minutes, then drain the water, and dry the nuts slightly. Now the process really will be more fun.

Cedar nuts are widely used in cooking and in the confectionery industry. How to clean these delicious fruits from the shell? On an industrial scale, special equipment is used for these purposes. Nuts are heated by hot air streams, crushed and purified from the fractions on the separator. Then again heated, peeled off the film, separated, washed in water, dried, hand sorted and controlled, and then packed into a package with the logo "Pine nuts."

How to clean nuts at home? You will have to try several ways and choose more acceptable and convenient. In order to clean a small amount of nuts to prepare a dish or for cosmetic and medicinal purposes, you can do with a garlic crust or adjust another convenient tool for this. To clean better dry nuts, they are less plastic, and the shell is easily separated from the core. The core also needs to be cleaned, then it needs to be lightly fried, dried and peeled off the film with your hands. It is possible to soak chipped kernels in boiling water, the film will easily depart and separate during washing.