American hazelnuts and an oldschool nut cracker
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2024
- A superficial comparison between American and European hazelnut and a brief demonstration of how to use a wooden mortar and pestle to crack them.
I notice how it's quite hard to describe flavors. The american hazelnuts taste like a cross between less sweet european hazelnuts and hickory nuts. But that isn't helpful if you don't know what hickory nuts taste like. Hickory nuts taste like less sweet pecans or sweeter less tannic walnuts. Or like almonds but with a very different flavor.
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We called them Filberts
Thank you for continuing to do experimental archaeology of your own culture
Funny thing is that American hazel nuts are popular during Christmas time here in Puerto Rico.
love all your stuff. btw if you want to fire harden something, without charring it, place a pile of sand big enough to cover the wooden object at the bottom of the firepit. and build a campfire over top of it. the hot sand will draw out the moisture from the wood, while keeping the flames from actually burning it. hope this helps. all the best.
I have read about native American hazelnut drinks they made. They sound tasty.
Once again (as always) a great video. Thank you Malcolm.
That's interesting, I'll keep this technique in mind
My grand-grandpa worked farm all his life. Some blacksmithing and woodcutting too. His hands were leathery and full of calusses. Even in his 80s he could crush walnuts in his hand with ease. I imagine our ancestors could do the same, even if hazelnuts are a little bit tougher.
What species did you use for the motar
I think it was in the red oak family, but I'm bad at identifying oaks. Could have been red, pin or black.
Malcolm doesn't miss. Great video as always.
Malcolm misses plenty, he just usually deletes the ones that miss.
I’ve never eaten these before but now I really want to.
if not just eating them on their own, what would you choose to cook with them / along side them?
I have a partiality to an old Irish story about a salmon that ate magic hazlenuts that fell into its pool, and became the salmon of wisdom, so I've been interested to see how they could be cooked up together.
They would probably go well with fish.
I have mostly just put them on things like pumpkin pie.
Might seem like a dumb question, but do European hazelnuts grow wild in southern Ontario and Upstate New York today? We have them at every forest edge in Germany and of course the wild ones are smaller than those from the store, (which are commercially grown in southern France and California, I believe).
No, the European ones aren't very hardy in our conditions and as such have not escaped from the farms into the wild.
There might be a local disease that gets them without human intervention, but I might be misremembering.
Any tips for getting to them before the squirrels do? It's rare to find more than a handful because of how voracious those little guys are!
Malcolm , are there any invetions your ppl did ? could be nice video topic
I prefer my channel lock pliers. Plenty of power and good control.
Surely there's a way to crush more than one at once?
Always informative! I know other indigenous cultures in south america and Africa use much larger mortar and pestle, utilizing the weight of the mortar to do the crushing rather than the force applied by their hands. I'm sure every application differs.
Serious question that you may or may not have covered before, or may or may not even know the answer to: Is there any evidence that indigenous north american cultures were aware of or used marijuana or psychedelic mushrooms? I would be surprised if they did not. Living close to the earth one would have a much larger understanding of everything around them unlike what we have today where people are far removed from the planet they live on and lack not only the knowledge but respect of, well, virtually everything.
No, marijuana is not native to the Americas. I don't know about mushrooms.
In southwestern north america they have peyote. But up here the only mind altering chemical in common use was tobacco.
Psychedelics are in conflict with Iroquoian morality, the core virtue is something called the Goodmind, you have to be clear and rational at all times.
Almost all religions in the old world are spawned from psychedelic use. I can't imagine it was much different in the Americas.
You are presenting speculation as fact.
Looks like my earlier comment that sparked this conversation was deleted so I'm not going to leave up half of it
Someone can describe something fictional without it being drugs. For instance, there once was a troll who lived under a bridge. My stating this does not equate to intoxication.
Nor if I state that the troll had three horns, and each of these horns had three more horns, and each of these horns had seven eyes, and the troll had three more horns and two more horns.
If one were to take it on a case by case basis, look at the possible explanations and comparing symptomology of local intoxicants with suspicious details in the story. I bet there are some stories where you could make a very strong argument for drugs, but I don't think most of them can be reasonably attributed.
For instance, we take the common drug claim people make about Moses talking to god as a burning bush, it could be drugs, sure, but it could equally be lies, a story that was never meant to be believed, schizophrenia, a weird dream, or just poetic license being taking too literally. The fact of someone reporting a talking bush is not in isolation an indication of psychedelics.@@merchanttube2036