How to Keep Nuts.

Manawatu Herald, 6 December 1894, Page 3

How to Keep Nuts.

An English paper recommends the following .—The nuts ought to be fujly matured before you gather them— indeed, it is said by some that to be stored should be allowed fall naturally ; at any rate, you will not succeed in keeping well unless they have been allowed to mature on the trees, and when gathered are allowed to dry thoroughly outside ; otherwise must will gather on the shells, and decay set in. One favourite method is to pack the nuts in fine olean sand, which should be thoroughly dried in the sun or in an oven, or before the fire, and then let cold. Have jars for preference, """as more impervious to air, or boxes, and pack the nuts in these in alternate layers with the fine dry sand, 4 anij*Miy|i|m in a dry but not too hoim^i jfte sand well off bef(TO«fcHej are sent to table, and as the. now year advances if you find on trying them that the nuts have become shrivelled, steep them in milk and water for from six to ten hours, and you will find them plump and freshen up wonderfully. X have known nuts kept splendidly in the oountry by plunging them packed olosely without sand in boxes and jarg pretty deep with at least two feet of earth over them, but the plaoe ohotfen niust be in some dry situa*. tion ; if they have the wet earth about them they will surely go. Nuts may also be stored fresh gathered in earthen jard with thick brown paper tied over them on the floor of tbe win^.cellar. , Another method is to pack them with salt in earthen jars, coyer tlhem close, and leave m a cejW till wanted, then wash in cold water, dry, and serve. This is a usual way of keeping them to be fresh at Christmas.