Baking with nuts: fresh or roasted

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I'm looking at 'South Tyrolean Christmas Zelten' from Ginsburg's The Rye Baker. 

It has a soaker with nuts and pine nuts.

Should the nuts be roasted before soaking? 

Any thoughts?

Happy Baking 

 

Len

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Absolutely roasted! I toss mine in a dry frying pan and toast them until they have changed colour and are fragrant. Very simple to do and it adds so much more flavour!

I also bake the Hearty Seeded Rye from the same book which uses flax & pumpkin seeds.  Would you roast them as well.  Thanks for the info, by the way.

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In reply to by lenb

Seeds too! Toasted the same way! Just watch out for flax seeds; they like to jump all over the place. Keep stirring them. 

Certain nuts, especially pine nuts, seem to go from pale to burnt in the wink of an eye; the wink being when you do something else for a nano-second, so watch them like a hawk!

Lance

Can i roast a bunch of nuts and seeds and store them, or should I roast the required amounts of specific goodies per bake?

How's that for lazy?

Thanks. 

Carole 

for the outside of the loaf or for lining pans as they will roast while the bread bakes.  Label the bags or jars while storing.