[Sca-cooks] How do you reconstitute dried chestnuts?
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Nov 15 02:47:01 PST 2007
On Nov 15, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Huette von Ahrens wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying an old family stuffing recipe for the first time this
> coming thanksgiving. It calls
> for chestnuts. The only chestnuts that I can find that aren't in
> their shells are dried
> chestnuts. Has anyone on this list worked with dried chestnuts?
> How do I go about reconstituting
> dried chestnuts? I am assuming that they will need to be moist for
> the stuffing. Help?
Not sure if you've got something like these, but here's a description
for dealing the dried Asian varieties:
http://asiafood.org/glossary_1.cfm?alpha=D&wordid=2490&startno=1&endno=25
Adamantius (re-lurking)
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