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Baking with nuts: fresh or roasted

lenb's picture
lenb

Baking with nuts: fresh or roasted

I'm looking at 'South Tyrolean Christmas Zelten' from Ginsburg's The Rye Baker. 

It has a soaker with nuts and pine nuts.

Should the nuts be roasted before soaking? 

Any thoughts?

Happy Baking 

 

Len

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Danni3ll3

Absolutely roasted! I toss mine in a dry frying pan and toast them until they have changed colour and are fragrant. Very simple to do and it adds so much more flavour!

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Edo Bread

totally agree with Danni

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lenb

I also bake the Hearty Seeded Rye from the same book which uses flax & pumpkin seeds.  Would you roast them as well.  Thanks for the info, by the way.

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Danni3ll3

Seeds too! Toasted the same way! Just watch out for flax seeds; they like to jump all over the place. Keep stirring them. 

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albacore

Certain nuts, especially pine nuts, seem to go from pale to burnt in the wink of an eye; the wink being when you do something else for a nano-second, so watch them like a hawk!

Lance

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DesigningWoman

Can i roast a bunch of nuts and seeds and store them, or should I roast the required amounts of specific goodies per bake?

How's that for lazy?

Thanks. 

Carole 

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Danni3ll3

and I would store them in the fridge or freezer. You can buy roasted nuts and seeds so I am sure you can do your own ahead of time. They would be a lot nicer than the ones you buy. 

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DesigningWoman

You're right, of course pre-toasted ones can be bought! Good point.

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Mini Oven

for the outside of the loaf or for lining pans as they will roast while the bread bakes.  Label the bags or jars while storing.

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DesigningWoman

too well ?