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Green Nuts in Brandy

A preserved nut beverage made by boiling unripe nuts in sulphite solution and brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Green Nuts in Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the nuts

  1. Pierce unripe nuts with a needle, avoiding the heart.

  2. Boil nuts in water with 1 ounce of sulphite per 4 gallons of water until the water turns black.

  3. Remove nuts and place them in a cold bath of sulphite and water for a few hours.

  4. Reboil the nuts in the same water, repeating until softened and water is nearly colorless.

Color and rinse

  1. Boil briefly in plain water colored with Emerald Green.

  2. Rinse the nuts in cold water.

Bottle and cover

  1. Bottle the nuts.

  2. Cover with the same liquor as the white nuts, sealing properly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Unripe nuts
The main ingredient, softened through repeated boiling until tender.
Emerald green
An aniline dye that gives the nuts their green color.

The step that matters

Reboiling until nearly colorless. The green color only shows evenly on a pale base. If the nuts are reboiled too little, residual dark color from the earlier boils will dull the final green.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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