Cob Nuts!

dawnybabes

Bump !!

Just got some today and not sure what to do with them .....

Chris25

I always thought cobs was just a Kentish term for hazlenuts - but it seems that they are a variety of hazelnut

dawnybabes - how to store them http://www.kentishcobnutsassociation.org.uk/how-should-i-store-cobnuts.aspx

& recipes http://www.kentishcobnutsassociation.org.uk/recipes.aspx

dizzybuff

wowwwwwwwwwww.. you lucky people ... most i get is airoplanes from trees enjoy

foxgloves

Last November, I made a really unusual mincemeat from cobnuts. I'd been wondering what to do with the remains of an old bottle of sloe gin I made years ago and had got a tub of cranberries in the freezer leftover from the previous Christmas. I found a recipe in Sarah Raven's Christmas book where you soak chopped cobnuts, cranberries & some other bits & pieces in sloe gin, pack it into jars then use it to fill your mince pies. To be honest, it looked like pretty rum stuff, but I went ahead & made the pies & it was gorgeous! My husband, who won't generally touch mince pies with a ten foot pole was scoffing them down! He's already asked me (in August!!!) if I'm doing them again this year, so cobnuts it is!

kiwifruit_2

kiwichick wrote: »

Uuummmm..................might be cause I is a kiwi..............what the heck are cob nuts?????

im a kiwi too lol and ive not ever heard of them but spooky...am watching country file on bbc1 and theres an segment on about them now :eek: apparently they are like brazil nuts (i think they said brazil) :beer:

geordie_joe

kiwifruit wrote: »

im a kiwi too lol and ive not ever heard of them but spooky...am watching country file on bbc1 and theres an segment on about them now :eek: apparently they are like brazil nuts (i think they said brazil) :beer:

They are Hazel nuts. The Hairy Bikers were in kent the other day and did a bit about them too.

Butterfly_Brain

My DH found an English Walnut tree ,they are bigger than the foreign ones that you buy in the shops and we have loads, I am going to toast them in the oven and seal in a jar with a tight fitting lid and they should last 'till Christmas so I would think you could do this with cob nuts too(Have'nt found a cob nut tree around here yet)

Debt_Free_Chick

"Wet" walnuts are well worth a try though. Delicately oily and a different flavour.

v8monkeyboy

Hi all,

I have 3Kg of cobnuts waiting for me to do exciting things with them :eek:

So...apart from making them into cakes, and preserving them in honey, is there anything else I can do to keep them from going off?

They're the green ones in case it makes any difference.

TIA

Tracy

Chris25

v8monkeyboy wrote: »

Hi all,

I have 3Kg of cobnuts waiting for me to do exciting things with them :eek:

So...apart from making them into cakes, and preserving them in honey, is there anything else I can do to keep them from going off?

They're the green ones in case it makes any difference.

TIA

Tracy

tracey, have you had a look at my post above ( #13 ) some ideas there