In a message dated 1/17/2005 12:14:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bato001 at aol.com writes: >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. > > Baklava has ground (or chopped depending on prefrance) walnuts, but it's mixed with cinnamon and sugar and someother spice I can't think of and it comes out nice and crunchy, not "buttery." -C