Re: Another of Life's Unanswered Questions

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:23:47 +0000, Joe Soap
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"Joe Soap" <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote in
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It's the chestnut season again.

As well as a shell, chestnuts have an inner skin that is somtimes
easy to remove, sometimes almost impossible.

The Question is, is that a feature of the chestnut or of the way it
is cooked?

I'll support the 'fresher the better' theory. One of my
postal customers used to present me with a bag of chestnuts every
other day when they were falling from the trees in his garden. Cooked
the same day the inner skin was never a problem.

In fact I would sometimes 'peel' a few and eat them raw
whilst out on delivery, and the hairy inner skin just rubbed off with
a little application of thumb.

Gyppo

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