RE: Cracking almonds
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: RE: Cracking almonds
- From: "* R* <r*@agric.wa.gov.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:50:02 +0800
Use a bench vice!
a quarter twist and done!
I use it even for macadamias which must be the hardest
nuts to crack and get the seed out intact
plus its quite.....
rod
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Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
"I weed..."
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> From: Marina & Anthony Green
> Reply To: green@pangeanet.it
> Sent: Friday, 23 April 1999 5:38 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Cracking almonds
>
> I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I'm sure many of you will be
> interested.
>
> My question is: are there any tricks to cracking open almond shells? - I
> have a whole pile here from
> last summer, and the only time I can crack them is when 1-year-old Julian
> is asleep, and the hammering
> would now wake him. In any case, there must surely be a better way of
> cracking them open than a
> hammer, and now it's starting to get warm, we are dying for some almond
> gazpacho. Slurp!
>
> Anthony
>
> p.s. I'll send the recipe to anyone who provides a cracking good way to
> deal with the shells
>
