[Magdalen] Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

in re roasted chestnuts - a friend made some for me last year and they were 
tasty (my first experience, having wondered/yearned to try them since I was 
a kid in downtown Detroit at the Thanksgiving Parade!) but not something I'd 
eat on a regular/seasonal basis.

OTOH...

There is an amazing dessert made from ground up chestnuts and sugar and 
cream called Mt. Blanc  - same friend who made the roasted chestnuts made it 
one year for Christmas dessert. The chestnut mixture is forced through a 
potato ricer while slowly turning the plate underneath, creating spaghetti 
noodle appearance shaped like the top of  soft-serve ice cream, with a 
generous dollop of real whipped cream on top (it looks like a snow covered 
mountain, hence the name). This is amazing and fun to serve as it is so 
interesting and delicious.

Lynn

ps. always loved the Christmas song mentioned in the subject line!!! It 
brings back memories from 60 years ago, these days!! : )

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attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:56 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

> And I LOVE roasted chestnuts!  Different strokes and all that...
>
>> On Nov 29, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen 
>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On a trip to New York City in the mid-1950's I stopped at what was
>> then ubiquitous along the streets of Midtown Manhattan:  Vendors  selling
>> roasted chestnuts.  I don't recall seeing these vendors in recent  years.
>>
>> I couldn't stand the roasted chestnuts (presumably imported from  Europe
>> since all American Chestnuts were dead of Chestnut Blight by then).
>> The taste was like I would imagine ground oak acorns to be.
>>
>> My spouse bought some roasted chestnuts recently, and my memories
>> were confirmed.  IMHO they are awful.
>>
>> Somebody must have thought chestnuts were tasty, hence the Christmas
>> song,  I'm all for the restoration of the American Chestnut, but I 
>> suspect
>> the taste of those nuts is pretty much the same.
>>
>>
>>
>> David S.