To Blanch Almonds or Peanuts
Ingredients
Directions
Shell the almonds or peanuts.
Pour enough hot water to cover them and let them stand for a few minutes.
Pour off the water and remove the skins with your fingers.
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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