Sweet Chestnuts

Hi, This was tradition in my family. Buy a sack from your local green grocers, about this time of the year, not when they first appear in the shops as they can be of poorer quality [have maggots old stock] Grab the family, give them all a knife, put some carols on the record player and away you go.
Make a slit in each one, boil in small batches, for approx 15 mins, you need to peel them while still hot, the hotter they are the easier to peel. They freeze well, I open freeze, then put into an ice cream container and take them out as and when you want. I add them to the turkey stuffing. Chopped into crushed meringue and whipped cream [Make into a bomb and freeze], just whole with sprouts, or sprinkle with a little oil and salt and bake for about 15 mins and eat. Lovely.

Hope this helps

Linda

thanks sheel.

When roasting chestnut, in my experience, it depends on size, if big it might take 20 minutes like Sheel said, but if you pick them up from the park trees like I do, they will be small and might only need 10-15 minutes.

You need to check them after 10 minutes because if they roast too much they get very hard.

Caterina

Aaaahhh chestnuts and mulled wine on Christmas eve afternoon

We do them in the oven too. I say we, actually hubby does them, he sees it as his job ;D