Pine nuts are a unique storehouse of useful substances, they contain all the B vitamins, in one hundred grams of nuts is the daily dose of amino acids necessary for a person, they also contain deficient trace elements such as copper, cobalt, manganese, zinc. Storing nuts is not difficult, you just need to follow some necessary rules.
It is necessary
- - a mill for crushing cones;
- - sieves with fine and coarse meshes;
- - oilcloth or tarpaulin;
- - plastic containers, glass jars, refrigerator.
Instructions
Step 1
Burn Siberian or Korean cedar cones over an open fire and store in bulk in a dry place and covered with a canopy. If you only have one or two cones, pick the nuts from them manually. If there are more nuts, then crush the cones over a tarp spread on the ground or use a primitive mill (box with rollers), separate the nuts from fragments and debris using several sieves with different mesh sizes.
Step 2
Dry the nuts extracted from the cones over the fire, putting them on a piece of tin, stir the nuts, make sure they do not burn, store the dried nuts in a dry place on a tarp and under a canopy, do not forget to stir them from time to time.
Step 3
Use another method if you dry the nuts at home: sprinkle them in a layer of 15-20 centimeters in a dry room on an oilcloth or tarpaulin, mix thoroughly every day for the first days.
Step 4
Place the unpeeled pine nuts in a canvas or any other natural fabric bag, hide in a dry, dark place, such as a closet, and store for no longer than 6 months. Make sure that insects and rodents and birds have no access to the place where nuts are stored.
Step 5
Put the peeled pine nuts in a plastic container or plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator, make sure that the nuts and packages are not wet, keep the peeled pine nuts in the refrigerator for no longer than 1-2 months.
Step 6
Use a different storage method: place the peeled pine nut kernels in glass jars with tight, but not sealed lids, like those in which cereals and spices are stored, put the jars in a place protected from light, having room temperature and a relative humidity of no more 55-65%.
Step 7
Store shelled pine nuts in this way no more than 2-3 months, otherwise they may lose all their beneficial nutritional properties, it is especially important that neither nuts nor glass jars are wet or even slightly damp.
