Chestnuts

I quite like chestnuts. Putting them in with a filling of Xmas mincemeat and sausagement into a butterflied pork tenderloin tomorrow. Have you ever tried chestnut puree? Had it in Paris once, can't say I'd rush back for seconds.

When I was young mam us d to put chestnuts in the ashes beneath the coal fire

When I was young mam us d to put chestnuts in the ashes beneath the coal fire

Write your comments here...sorry, I don't understand. What's a coal fire?

The stalls selling chestnuts in London have allways been  cooked in pans with coke fire

I've got a long handled pan with holes in it and put it on our open fire to cook chestnuts. Just have to make sure they're pricked first or you get mini explosions! Haven't had any yet this year, must look out for some.

I've done them on the gas hob too!

We brought a lot back from France, picked from the roadside and have been eaten them since.  I cooked and froze quite a few for Christmas.  We have a tool on our 'companion set' by our woodburner, which is specially for cooking chestnuts and looks like a very large shallow spoon with holes in.

As well as making stuffing, they're useful added to mincemeat in your mince pies, to stop them boiling over - and to help to thicken a sauce made from meat juices, lardons, shallots, redcurrant jelly, and mustard - can be any meat, it's tasty with them all.

Listen you lot. You do know that obesity is our biggest threat, don't you?

I've got a long handled pan with holes in it and put it on our open fire to cook chestnuts. Just have to make sure they're pricked first or you get mini explosions! Haven't had any yet this year, must look out for some.

I've done them on the gas hob too!

...If you said a month ago,I would have got you a sackfull as the sweet chestnut round here were loaded ,you needed a tin hat out walking if it was breezy,and we were in York last week we could have brought them up

Shades  of  a  young  Johnny  Morris  in  a  grey  jersey  with  holes  in  the  elbows  telling  his  stories  on  '50s  TV I  think,  but  a  very  long  time  ago  !!

We have one of THESE.   We spend most of the year in SW France where there are lots and lots of chestnut and walnut trees so a pan to cook chestnuts in is obligatory.....

The local markets have stalls roasting chestnuts at this time of the year and they cook them in a rotary drum over an open fire.  Delicious.