In a message dated 1/17/2005 6:56:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: >On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:33, Scott Schultz wrote: > >> >When you grind peanuts too much, you get peanut butter. >> >"rednuts that have been ground to a powder" Does anyone >> >know of a way to grind peanuts into a powder or know of >> >a nut that would grind to a powder? >> >> It's the oil in the peanuts (and most other nuts) that causes it to become >> "nut butter". For rednuts to be ground to a powder they would have to >> essentially be fat-free. > >It is quite common in Hungarian desserts for nuts of various sorts to be >ground down to a powder and mixed with the flour. I'm not sure of any >special technique used to do this. > > > > I'm wondering if roasting them or putting them in a food dehydrater would do the trick??? -- John D. Barbato, O.D.