SC - Boiled peanuts, was, food bashing

[Olwen the Odd]

You can buy boiled peanuts on line from the CajunShop I think.
Olwen

>From: "Bonne of Traquair" <oftraquair at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Boiled peanuts, was, food bashing
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:28:27 PDT
>
>Boiled Peanuts!  Oh dear.  I just remembered that before I left NC, or at
>the latest before we left visiting my parents in FL to fly west, I wanted 
>to
>go to Winn-Dixie and buy several cans of boiled peanuts. (Home-boiled are
>better, but the canned sort have their own special set of memories.)  I
>forgot until now, and here I am in CA and I'm sure I can't get any.
>
>Sad me. sigh
>
>>What sorts of things do Southern Americans use for
>> > "boiling mix"?
>
>SALT - that's it.
>
>>
>>I dunno, but there's also a Chinese variant in which the peanuts are
>>boiled in a strong enough brine that water is drawn out of them, to
>>produce a perfectly salted peanut in the shell, which, when dried, is
>>crunchier than roasted peanuts. Sounds a bit weird, I guess, but quite
>>addictive, and, I assume, lower in fat than roasted ones.
>
>My dear husband found and made a recipe involving star anise and other
>spices.  Definately not worth doing again, IMO.  But non-southerner that he
>is, he liked them alot better than the kind I'm used to.
>
>Bonne (who is going through a homesick phase.  last evening, I sat out on
>the patio and listened to the water sprinklers. If you close your eyes, it
>almost sounds/smells like rain.)
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