Helen's nut chutzpah/Re: Rancid oil

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> Slow-dried salt-soaked cashews, almonds and brazils are the most

delicious

> things. Superlish, as my friend (annoyingly) says. The process

even makes

> walnuts, which everyone knows are otherwise foul, pleasant*. It

may be a

> waste of time nutritionally, but it's a taste transformation. I

therefore

> hope you're not missing out on this, and are only referring to

sprouts in

> your comment above.

>

> Helen

> * this is, of course, a matter of fact.

> ps - can you centre-embed to get an adjective stack?

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Helen,

Them sound like fightin' words...

To suggest that your method of preparing almonds is more lish than

simply soaking and germinating them for a day or three with plain

water and eating them slightly moist right out of the sprout

container, is akin to suggesting you have discovered a convenient

light source brighter than the sun. I remain steadfast in my

disbelief. Perhaps, however, I will put my faith in science and test

the matter someday. I have never bothered with nuts besides almonds

or peanuts because these are the only two I know to germinate

beautifully, although I have a copious supply of black walnuts in my

backyard that I ought to master one day. (My one dabbling left my

hands grotesquely stained for about two weeks.) I often do eat a

single brazil nut at a time for the selenium, and for this quantity I

haven't been compelled to invest the effort in the above methods.

Note that selenium is so concentrated in brazil nuts that you could

experience selenium toxicity if you ate a handful everyday. I'm sure

an irregular handful here and there is completely harmless though.

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

ps I'm guessing you're referring to the non-restrictive relative in

there--it works for me! But of course I give praise to commas in

such matters. I will take this juncture to apologize to the list for

my infamous history of modificational labyrinthes, although I can't

go so far as to announce any plans for a change in habits...