Name: Salted Peanuts
Ingredients: raw peanuts; coarse sea salt

Salted Peanuts

Ingredients

raw peanuts
coarse sea salt

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Place raw peanuts in the oven for about 5 minutes to make them easier to shell.
Remove peanuts from the oven and shell them.

Blanch and salt

Blanch the shelled peanuts in boiling water for a few minutes.
Drain and sprinkle with coarse sea salt to taste.

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

Raw peanuts: Provide the main nut body; brief oven heating loosens the shells for easier shelling.
Coarse sea salt: Adds savory flavor and a crunchy seasoning on the surface of the peanuts.

“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.