Soon it’s Chestnut Season (
(Castanea sativa)
These delicious autumn fruits should be collected straight from the ground when their prickly casings have opened.
Hot roasted nuts, dipped in sea salt are a delightful treat. Chestnut flour is highly nutritious and a useful inclusion in crumble toppings and similar.
Such is their immense value as a superfood, Romans would make the ground flour into porridge and give it to their soldiers before battle. It is high in protein, many vitamins and minerals and slow-burning, long-lasting fuel.
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