roasted chestnut cookies

As if we needed any further evidence which we was meant to live in Paris, it is my firm idea (though based usually in fantasy) which during any time of a year over there, we will have unfettered entrance to things done with chestnuts, one of my favorite foods which usually get a half hearted reception in this country. Sure, we fry them upon open fires in December (in a smoking jackets, of course, while a dog brings us a evening paper) though a rest of a year, theyre relegated to nostalgia. Even in New York City, we frequency see such delights as reddish-brown paste, which we attempted to smuggle behind into a nation after a last trip, not realizing which airfield confidence would cruise it a liquid as well as force me to throw it away (I still get a small weepy when we remember this). And dont even get me proposed upon a sad deficiency of marrons glace, or candied chestnuts. Okay, fine, get me started.

In short, they are an obsession. we think theyre one of a most tasty things upon earth as well as thus, it would be usually logical which we would make them as well as share with we how we could do so during home. Except, Ill never make them since theyre exceedingly frail as well as time-consuming to make as well as were we to try, youd quickly realize why it is de riguer to cough up five dollars for a singular one during a candy shop. Come on, Deb we listen to we saying, Thats rsther than defeatist of you! though here, let me discuss it we what a really first step is in candying chestnuts: fry a chestnuts as well as peel them in one piece. And now let me uncover we what happened a last time we attempted to:

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