... > Rednut shells were used to season the fire. Hey, rednuts have shells. > Auggh! Just > like hazelnuts, almonds, chestnuts, macadamia nuts and walnuts and > probably every other kind of nut. > > Book of Taltos, Phoenix, Lesson 3, page 215 > > Hazelnuts/almonds/chestnuts/macadamia nuts/walnuts > Hazelnut/almond/chestnut/macadamia/walnut flour (walnut flour may > actually > be walnut meal) If you search for "almond flour", you'll find that it can also be almond meal. > Hazelnut/almond/chestnut/macadamia/walnut liqueur I'm surprised to learn that chestnut liqueur exists, but I did the same Web search you probably did. Anyway, being surprised to learn things is good for me. > Hazelnut/almond/chestnut/macadamia/walnut wood > Hazelnuts/almonds/chestnut/macadamia nuts/walnuts have an outer shell. > > Do you think hazelnuts might even look more reddish under an orange-red > overcast. Sure, but everything else would too. > "Hazelnuts come from trees. They are almost round in shape, with a hard > brownish-red outer husk and an inner kernel" > http://www.baking911.com/pantry_nuts&seeds2.htm > > macadamia nuts - "tropical environment required to grow them" - like a > jungle planet > http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa050602a.htm > > Chestnuts outer shell might also be considered reddish. One > website warned not to eat chestnuts raw. Dragaerans might be able to > eat > chestnuts raw, but Vlad should get sick if he does. ... I think this quotation that you supplied rules out chestnuts: "'A few moments that I will spend boiling these rednuts in this liqueur before spooning them onto the cold fruit, and eating them before the temperatures have evened out. I suggest, My Lord, you busy yourself in the same way, and, before the bowl of nuts has exhausted itself, well, I believe I will have an answer for you.'" Chestnuts aren't nuts (except that they have hardish shells). They're soft and potato-like (and yummy, but the only good ones I've had were the time I was in Europe). I don't think anyone would refer to a bowl of chestnuts as a bowl of nuts. Okay, Merriam-Webster says "1 a : any of a genus (_Castanea_) of trees or shrubs of the beech family [...] b : the edible nut of a chestnut c : the wood of a chestnut" But culinarily they're not nuts. > I've ordered some hazelnut flour and will make some wheat/hazelnut bread > > without > the red food coloring. The hazelnut flour looks brown and white because > of > the > hazelnut skin. I am wondering what it will look like cooked in bread. I'll bet it won't be red, but it might be tasty. I've got to say, though, that in my opinion the best use of hazelnuts is eating them straight. -- Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail