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Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:53 pm**

we've picked loads - well gathered more than picked.

tonight we cracked a load open and shoved them on a tray in the rayburn, which was on cooking a pot roast.

freshly roasted hazelnuts are lovely!
then, made nut choc chip cookies....

I LOVE hazelnuts!

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:45 am**

I have just filled half a bottle of vodka with chopped hazelnuts in the attempt to make hazelnut liquour - its my favourite. The other half of the vodka has boiled sweets in - should be interesting!

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:38 am**

Wow! Will the sweets dissolve in the vodka?
Let us know how it works eh?

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:37 pm**

chadspad wrote:I have just filled half a bottle of vodka with chopped hazelnuts in the attempt to make hazelnut liquour - its my favourite. The other half of the vodka has boiled sweets in - should be interesting!

ooo let us know how the hazelnut liqueur works out!

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:54 am**

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Bread/Hazelnut.htm

Same here Red, tons and tons, beat the squirrels to them.
Will try the liquor, new one as is my neighbours HAZELNUT BREAD.

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:52 am**

Thanks for the reminder -- I spotted a hazelnut tree in an inaccessible place earlier in the summer (actually when I fell into a ditch) ... must get over there and check it later today...

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:44 pm**

from my own experience of boiled sweet vodka: we separated the colours...

green: loo cleaner taste
yellow and orange: tixylix/ medicine
red: really yummy... just tasted of red I suppose lol!
purple: really wierd, can't put finger on the taste.
plus, to make it sweet enough for me and jim we needed quite a lot of stock syrup. the sweets we crushed for the red and green, but we left the yellow and orange whole. the red and green took 1.5 weeks to dissolve, the other took about 2-3 ish.

miss-spent student dayd

we made skittle vodka too, that was nice. peppermint vodka was lovely (t**co economy mint imperials). Chilli had a really scary tast which was wierdly more-ish.

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:59 pm**

Gosh! Psychedelic booze!

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:48 am**

Oh no, I was too late ... my hazel nuts have all gone! -- oh well there's next year!

Posted: **Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:59 am**

I am new so just caught up with this thread. We have some hazelnut trees planted - only about 5feet tall so far. Anyone know how long it is until they produce. Can't wait to try the hazelnut liquor or and roasted hazelnuts - yum.