If it bothers you - and it's unlikely to really matter unless the ingredient is essential to the chemistry involved in the recipe - then consider how they're likely to have made the recipe themselves. It would be silly to chop some unknown quantity of nuts then measure a cup of them. You'd start with a known quantity, then chop them.

2010年8月27日 · The more liquid texture is a result of the oils in the nut being released as it is crushed. To avoid releasing the oil, start with cold nuts and shred or grate rather than crushing. Any kind of blunt trauma will squeeze the oil from the nut, making it gloppy. Keeping the nuts cold will cause the oil to solidify, keeping the final product fluffy.

2006年10月25日 · The problem with trying to grind nuts fine is that the smallest pieces fall to the bottom, like potato chips in a bag. The smaller pieces displace the larger ones to the top of the food processor bowl.

2013年2月1日 · I usually break groundnuts by putting them between my teeth. This often results in shattering the groundnut kernel. The problem with smashed kernels is removing the papery cover as well as the outer

Can nuts be frozen in order to keep their flavour, and if so, for how long?

I want to use ground nuts in a pavlova meringue, but I am having difficulty deciding what cooking technique would be best to use - recipes for meringue with nuts added seem to require a higher heat (350f/ 175 C) and shorter cooking time, cooling out of the oven, whereas the traditional pavlova meringue requires a hot oven turned low and cooling ...

2014年12月16日 · Both of those recipes start with whole nuts that are ground in a food processor or spice grinder. Wheat flour behaves very differently, if you want to bake a cake using nut flour in combination with or instead of wheat flour, search for recipes that call for nut flour.

2024年8月9日 · mortar and pestle. I don't like it because the nut dust splashes everywhere, I have to add nuts in very small portions, it takes a very long time to go from 80%-100% powdered. smoothie blender. I don't like it because the nuts nearest to the blades get turned into oil and gunk up the blades, then none of the other nuts inside get blended.

2015年11月14日 · On average though, 1.5 cups of chopped hazelnuts is about 6.08 oz (172 g) according to the USDA's averages. You can check the USDA's National Nutrient Database page for hazelnuts if you want to see estimated weights for 1.5 cups of …

2022年4月30日 · The nuts aren’t much by weight but they seem to be about the only dry ingredient aside from the cocoa powder so I imagine they’ll be fairly important in holding everything together. I’ve never cooked with ground nuts so I don’t have any experience with how they behave in a recipe.