A favorite treat of my childhood is pine nuts. How to clean and how to get them, we knew from an early age. In autumn, everyone eagerly awaited the ripening of cones, ran into the forest, knocked on a tree in the hope that at least a few pieces would fall from above. If the boys managed to climb the cedar and pick up cones, then this was a common joy. Immature cedar cones are very durable, tarry, and you just can’t clean them with your hands and get to the nuts. But we, the forest kids, knew very well how to peel pine nuts. To do this, make a fire and fry the cones, like fresh potatoes in the ash of a cooling fire. The resin burned out in the fire, the lump opened, and it was possible to regale itself with milk nuts.
But the most delicious cedar cones are boiled. Their fragrant smell is the smell of childhood. To cook the cones, you need to stock up on an old bucket or pan, put the harvest there, pour water on it, cover it with a layer of fresh green grass on top. Now you need to light a fire and hang a bucket over the fire. It remains quite a bit, the water boils and rinses off all the resin, which foams and soaks into the grass, and the cones become pinkish-blue, smelling delicious, clean. Very tasty, healthy, and nothing that hands and face in resin. Today, coming to my homeland, I am happy to look at the grown cedars. Again, like many years ago, we will go to the forest, to whip - to extract pine nuts. How to clean the bumps, we remember very well.
This product has gained popularity not only in our homeland, but throughout the world. Today pine nuts can be purchased at any supermarket. When making a purchase, remember that not all nuts are in the store from the Siberian taiga. Large batches of nuts come from China (Manchu cedar) and from Italy ( Italian pine pine nuts ). It is forbidden to sell peeled pine nuts by weight in the retail network, due to the fact that the product contains a large amount of oil and quickly deteriorates. Packaged products have a very limited shelf life and eating a rancid nutcracker with a bitter taste can ruin your mood and health for a long time.
Therefore, in order to protect yourself and loved ones from using a low-quality product, you should purchase cones of the current year’s crop or unpeeled nuts, and enjoy a really useful product. Our ancestors also knew how to quickly clean pine nuts - they just need to be clicked.
Clicking nuts is a pleasant but dangerous activity for the teeth. It’s just that squirrels have a lot of fun, and it’s better for us to pour pine nuts in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, then drain the water and dry the nuts slightly. Now the process will really go more fun.
Pine nuts are widely used in culinary and confectionery industries. How to peel these delicious fruits from the shell? On an industrial scale, special equipment is used for these purposes. The nuts are heated by streams of hot air, crushed and cleaned of fractions on a separator. Then it is heated again, peeled off the film, separated, washed in water, dried, manually sorted and controlled, and then packaged in a package with the Pine Nuts logo.
How to clean nuts at home? You will have to try several ways and choose a more acceptable and convenient. In order to clean a small amount of nuts for cooking or for use in cosmetic and medicinal purposes, you can do with a crush of garlic or adapt another convenient tool for this. It is better to peel dry nuts, they are less ductile, and the shell is easily separated from the kernel. The core also needs to be cleaned, then it needs to be slightly fried, dried and peeled off the film by hand. You can soak the peeled kernels in boiling water, the film will easily come off and separate when washing.