hurleyjd
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A cousin gave me a bag of Valencia peanuts for Christmas. They are raw and very hard. Why? Best I can remember the raw peanuts were softer than these in the past.
Jogeephus":2p2sf02u said:You may be thinking of raw green peanuts versus raw dried peanuts.
You would not be welcomed in my home....those things are addictive :cowboy:hurleyjd":25wqz1ho said:I have eaten the boiled peanuts that are green peanuts and not to fond of them.
That's right, you can never eat enough.ALACOWMAN":35xj2nne said:You would not be welcomed in my home....those things are addictive :cowboy:hurleyjd":35xj2nne said:I have eaten the boiled peanuts that are green peanuts and not to fond of them.
I guess it's whatever you're used to. We raised peanuts when I was a kid an we always roasted them in the shells. When I left for the service later, saw boiled peanuts for the first time outside Memphis Tn.ga.prime":2ynid3g7 said:People saying they don't like boiled peanuts I think can be mostly attributed to how they were cooked and specifically to how salty they are. They are almost always too salty when you buy them at a roadside stand. That comes from leaving them in the brine too long. It's just about impossible to get them too salty on first cooking them.
I like those too. We call them parched peanuts and they're much better than any roasted in the shell peanuts you buy in a bag from the store.greybeard":1cc46yh4 said:We raised peanuts when I was a kid an we always roasted them in the shells.
greybeard":2znueg2q said:" We call them parched peanuts"
Ah yes..that's what my father called them too..memory jogged. Spread them out in a big flat pan and stuck 'em in the oven and mom occasionally shook the pan so none would burn too badly on the bottom. Right out of the oven still warm were a pretty good treat for our family that didn't get many back in those days.
Made a nice aroma in the kitchen too. The little things I miss.......
Mostly tho, we fed the whole vines, peanuts and all to the cows same as JD said. Our soil was a pretty tight black gumbo so we had to pick the right time to pull em or run a single bottom plow along the rows to unearth them then go along and shake the dirt off the plants and peanuts.
Nowadays, ants would probably be a big problem..there weren't as many fire ants back then.
I haven't seen peanuts grown around here in a long time.
I remember too, my mother made a candy with the peanuts around Christmas..brittle using ribbon cane syrup.
So much better than the 'peanut patty' you would by at the 5/10 cent store.
Saw a display of peanut patties in a convenience store yesterday. $1.69 for one....just about passed out.greybeard":ytjb3hrf said:" We call them parched peanuts"
Ah yes..that's what my father called them too..memory jogged. Spread them out in a big flat pan and stuck 'em in the oven and mom occasionally shook the pan so none would burn too badly on the bottom. Right out of the oven still warm were a pretty good treat for our family that didn't get many back in those days.
Made a nice aroma in the kitchen too. The little things I miss.......
Mostly tho, we fed the whole vines, peanuts and all to the cows same as JD said. Our soil was a pretty tight black gumbo so we had to pick the right time to pull em or run a single bottom plow along the rows to unearth them then go along and shake the dirt off the plants and peanuts.
Nowadays, ants would probably be a big problem..there weren't as many fire ants back then.
I haven't seen peanuts grown around here in a long time.
I remember too, my mother made a candy with the peanuts around Christmas..brittle using ribbon cane syrup.
So much better than the 'peanut patty' you would by at the 5/10 cent store.
They were an acquired taste for me. The first hand full I ever ate I hated, the second was not too bad, by the third I loved them. Now I can eat half a gallon at one sitting.ga.prime":2g9qi1mb said:People saying they don't like boiled peanuts I think can be mostly attributed to how they were cooked and specifically to how salty they are. They are almost always too salty when you buy them at a roadside stand. That comes from leaving them in the brine too long. It's just about impossible to get them too salty on first cooking them.