take care and select the nuts with out breaking your head

To acquire good walnuts, Myriam Vasseur advises above all to method the producers even when it means visiting the orchards – for instance hers in Corrèze. As a result of the kind of harvest makes it doable to have some sturdy indicators:

“In natural, our plots are grassy. So we choose them up repeatedly. With us, they’re executed mechanically, however you must choose them very repeatedly in order that the nuts stay lovely, clear and light-weight in shade.”

Apart from, these colours of the shell already point out loads of issues, reminds the farmer as a result of “on the nuts, you must observe the general shade of the shell which can give indications on the colour of the kernel. If the shell is all stained, it might lower the standard of the kernel.”

On the hazelnut facet, she insists on the truth that the shell should clearly not have holes – “like a pinhole” – proof of the passage of a small devastating insect, the balanin.

Preserve dry

To converse them, it’s essential to maintain the nuts and hazelnuts in a dry and ventilated place and keep away from damp rooms such because the laundry room. They need to even be sheltered from sturdy mild to maintain them longer and when the warmth returns, they should be stored within the coolest areas doable in order to not be affected by meals moths.

After which everybody has already skilled this tragedy: a kernel diminished to crumbs resulting from improper dealing with of a nutcracker. So how do you crack a nut however not the kernel in it? The trick is to make use of a small hammer or mallet: “opposite to what you suppose, you should not hit the weld since you’ll harm the kernel. Somewhat, you must give just a little sharp blow on the plump half to eat the entire kernel.”

Style naturally

For the tasting, Myriam Vasseur has a quite simple proposal: “When autumn comes, we put them within the basket on the desk. Each time we cross by, we take one and it is good for our well being” as a result of like several good product, the farmer prefers to style them in “essentially the most pure method doable!”