Friday 13 September 2013

"Here we go gathering nuts in..... September?"

Why does the rhyme say: "May"?

This year we appear to have beaten the woodpecker and secured a reasonable harvest of hazelnuts..


Let's hope this year is third time lucky and we can keep the mice off them....

I'll guess I'll just have to get busy making hazelnut meringues; they make a nice change from Stuffed Woodpecker....... 

But this time I won't try piping the meringue mixture. It's not a good idea when it contains chopped nuts - and you are using a piping bag with a small nozzle!

Umm, hazelnut meringues.....!!

2 comments:

Jean said...

I have a nice recipe for hazelnut macaroons.
It uses part ground hazelnuts, part ground almonds, but you coul increase the proportion of hazelnuts I think:
http://bakinginfranglais.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/macaroons.html

GaynorB said...

Your hazelnut meringue is delicious.

When we were clearing the banks of the bief we came across a couple of hazelnut trees that we hadn't realised were there. I expect the nuts will be long gone by the end of October! C'est la vie...