Marrons Glaces. Anyone ever attempted making them???

Mado

Candied chestnut in english.
Picked loads of chestnuts and would love to try but not sure if I'm up the recipe I have found on the net.
Help, advice anybody?

npsmama

Haven't tried yet but am planning to for Christmas.
What recipe are you using?

Topher

I was just talking to my sister about them last night, she's made some, but the chestnuts collapsed. She enjoyed eating the chestnut fudge that was the result. I'll ask if she was working from a recipe if you like. From my recall, I thought they were dipped & dried repeatedly like candied peel, but she reckons just one boil up in the sugar syrup will do.... however, like I said, she ended up with more of a fudge that Marron Glace.
I'll work on it.
Topher

Mado

Yeah the recipe mention 4 dips in syrup with a higher sugar content each time....
A lot of faff!
I just love the finished product though....

wendym

I couldn't get the sugar syrup to stick to the chestnuts. Even when I thought I'd cracked it, the glaze came off as they cooled.

Perhaps roughing up their surface a bit first would give the syrup something to grip onto?

whatatwit

I have a recipe for Marron Glacés, where the chestnuts are boiled in syrup, left overnight in syrup and boiled up again next day, and again the next day. This results in a candied fruit.
To get a Glacé finish, they need to be dipped in a fresh solution of sugar syrup and slowly dried in oven.

I will post the actual recipe if you want it.

Sarahsaver

Too flippin long i bet is how long it takes! It takes enough faffing about to peel them, but chestnuts are lovely in a risotto or with sprouts
Anyone got a quick way of peeling them?
The Merchant gourmet do good peeled chestnuts and other chestnut products.

whatatwit

Sarahsaver, snip tops & put a few at a time into boiling water and scald for 2-3 minutes. Peel carefully while hot, reheating when necessary.

jojo3_2

This chestnut thing. I was walking last weekend and found loads on the floor, which I duly scooped up and carted home for roasting. Very nice - except there were several with large visitors in them! Eeeeeugh! Am I supposed to pick them off the tree rather than off the ground? They are very prickly!

whatatwit

Extra protein for free, a true OS poster.

sleepless_saver

just a reminder - horse chestnuts (conkers) are not edible which is a pity as there are a lot more of them. Edible chestnuts look pretty much the same except they have pointy tops .