Cobnut Recipes

[jojo2910]

Hi,

We've spotted some lovely looking cobnuts in the nearby hedgerows. Can anyone advise when I can pick them and if there is anything special I can make with them.

Mucho appreciated

Jojo

[Polly Fouracre]

I like them roasted lightly and salted. Put into small, sterilised jars they keep for a fair time.

[Rossa]

They're interchangeable with hazelnuts being from the same family I think, though someone may say different. So you could make a hazelnut (cobnut) shortbread using ground cobnuts instead of the ground almonds.

If you have a coffee grinder it can grind up nuts fairly finely. Or one of those hand held blenders, the stick variety usually made by Braun and others. I have one of those and it can grind up whole almonds if I chop them up a bit first. Best to have a metal blade not the plastic ones in some food processors.

If you can do that, then try a hazelnut/cobnut meringue cake. Make up your meringue and fold in the ground nuts. Bake and when cool sandwich together with cream and berries. Raspberries, blackberries or strawberries.

Or try a treacle tart made with ground or finely chopped nuts instead of the breadcrumbs. I also add finely chopped nuts to my crumble mix for fruit crumbles or make up some muesli or granola including the chopped cobnuts.

You could just try roasting them in the shell like chestnuts and eating with salt like Polly suggests.

[Hilary B]

No idea how they make it, but the supermarket in Spain sometimes sells a hazelnut liqueur, it's sweet and does taste of hazelnuts.
Like Rossa says, cobnuts and hazelnuts are virtually the same.