[Sca-cooks] Hazelnut a new world food?

[Mark Hendershott]

At 11:49 AM 11/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Hazelnuts (or filberts, from the Middle English "philber" after St. Philbert
>whose feast day is in August when the nuts ripen) are the nuts of hazel
>trees (genus Corylus) and are primarily from the European species, C. maxima
>and C. aveliena.  C. americana is the New World hazel.
>
>Bear

Those European nuts must be different than the Oregon variety I picked when 
a kid.  We did it in October, by hand.  Now they use a machine like a giant 
vacuum.


Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir