From what tree are plane trees collected, how they look. Composition and useful properties of beech nuts, harm when used. Recipes for food and drinks. Interesting Facts. It is recommended to use the fruits of the beech tree for anemia.
Chinariki nuts are most useful for men. This dietary supplement eliminates impotence, restores prostate function and significantly increases libido.
External use of crushed kernels accelerates the healing of wounds, including burns, relieves pain in rheumatism, radiculitis, osteochondrosis and gout.
Traditional healers used beech nuts to treat tuberculosis. Potions based on them help to stop pulmonary bleeding and reduce the severity of inflammatory processes. Unfortunately, the complex composition does not destroy Koch's sticks.
Contraindications and harm of beech nuts
In the composition of plane trees there is a lot of tannin, which, binding with the alkaloid phagin, forms a stable compound that causes intoxication. Symptoms: headache, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and even prolonged hallucinations.
A person who has been poisoned by the fruits of beech becomes dangerous to others. He shows aggression, and since this increases libido, unpleasant incidents arise.
Harm of beech nuts:
- The development of diarrhea and nausea in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
- The appearance of osteoporosis, the leaching of calcium from the body;
- Deposition of calculi in the kidneys;
- Deposition of uric acid in the joints;
- Destruction of tooth enamel.
You can not eat raw plane trees during pregnancy. At this time, the female body is most sensitive, and intoxication can provoke an interruption.
Do not give fresh nuts to children. And if the baby nevertheless found them himself under a tree and after consumption appeared weakness, it is necessary to wash the stomach. It is especially dangerous if the child begins to fall asleep and the temperature has dropped. In this case, they must call an "ambulance". Fortunately, there were no serious incidents when using plane trees. The nucleoli taste bitter and children can only swallow a few.
How to eat and what to cook with plane trees
To remove the shell from the nuts, they are laid out in a layer, covered with cling film and crushed with light blows. After that, the film is removed, the shell is selected, and plane trees can be tasted.
Consider how plane trees eat, so as not to provoke intoxication. Peeled fruits are calcined in a pan, and only then they are feasted or used as an ingredient in dishes, ground into flour and added to baked goods, desserts or sauces for hot dishes.
You don't need to eat fresh nuts right away, but keep in mind that they should be used throughout the year. It is necessary to store the fruits of the beech tree in bags made of natural fabrics, having previously dried. It is advisable to hang the bags on hooks that are specially hammered into the doors of kitchen cabinets.
Recipes with plane trees:
- Satsivi … Large chicken is boiled until tender with onions, carrots and salt. Other seasonings are optional. For the dish, you should leave 0.75 liters of broth. The meat is separated from the bones and skin by hand, separating into fibers. Pieces are spread into broth. Chopped onions, 1 head, and half a head of garlic are fried in butter. Sprinkle with flour and then add to the broth. Turn off after boiling. In a separate bowl, better in a blender bowl, since you still have to stir, combine a quarter of a teaspoon of citric acid and red hot pepper, a glass of ground fried plane trees, boiled yolk, salt. Stir, add a bunch of chopped dill and spread the mixture into boiled chicken. All ingredients are mixed, the dish is cooled. Served cold.
- Nut mix … Before cooking it, you should learn how to fry plane trees. Pour the peeled nucleoli into a dry hot frying pan, stir for 30-40 seconds, and then cool. You can fry the nuts with the peel for 60-80 seconds, and then peel it, as described above, using cling film. If the heat casing is carried out in the oven, it should be heated to a temperature of 120 ° C. Combine dried fruits with fried chilled nuts - raisins, dried apricots, prunes and dates cut into small pieces. Nuts and dried fruits together should be equally divided. For taste, add gummy crumbs.
- Salsa piemontese di nociole, Italian sauce … Pour half a glass of fried plane trees into a blender, pour in half a glass of olive oil and thick 30% cream, a tablespoon of cocoa (or grated dark chocolate), 2 cloves of garlic, 70 g of soft Parmesan cheese. Pepper, nutmeg crumbs and salt are used to improve the taste. Everything is mixed until smooth and cooled. The sauce is served with seafood pasta.
- Mutaki … Sifted flour, 1.75 cups, combine in a bowl with 0.25 cups of plane tree flour. Add 3/4 sticks of diced butter to the mixture and grind into crumbs with your fingers. Pour 2 egg yolks and a little less than a glass of sour cream there, add some salt and knead the soft dough and roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic and leave for 1 hour on a shelf in the refrigerator. Whisk the whites in a blender with half a glass of sugar and gently stir in a glass of toasted nuts. The oven is heated to 200 ° C. The dough is rolled out in pieces. A circle is made from the layer, cut into sectors-triangles, filling is laid out in each and wrapped in a roll. The rolls are baked on a baking sheet covered with parchment for 25-30 minutes. Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving.
If the plane trees have been fried in advance, then they can also be stored in bags, but no longer than 4 months. There are too many fatty components in them. If the recommendations for shelf life are neglected, the properties of beech nuts are not preserved, and the flesh becomes bitter.
Beech tree coffee is popular. The drink is prepared only from beech fruits or from a mixture of several ingredients. For this, nuts are fried in the same way as described in recipes with plane trees. Then the fruits are ground and boiled with boiling water. You can boil, but as soon as bubbles appear, the container is turned off. Grated ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon are suitable as spices. Unlike regular coffee, this drink has a sedative effect and helps you fall asleep.
To prepare a barley drink, mix 1 part of dandelion root, rye, 1, 5 parts of wheat, 2 parts of beech nuts, wild chicory, 3 parts of barley. Grind everything, let it brew for at least a day, brew 1 teaspoon per glass of water. Add honey or condensed cream for flavor.
Interesting facts about beech nuts
There are 11 species of beech trees in total, and the fruits are all named the same. Their size depends on where the plane tree nuts grow. In colder climates, fruit sizes reach 1-1.5 cm in length, in warm climates they reach 2.5 cm.
Also, nuts differ in the color of the peel. The more sun, the brighter and lighter the color. Despite the fact that the collection takes place on purpose, the plant is not cultivated. Although beech trees are planted to stop landslides on mountain slopes. Nuts ripen from mid-October to mid-November.
Beech nuts are a favorite treat of forest dwellers, namely roe deer, wild boars, deer, birds and squirrels.
People have also been using the product for food since ancient times:
- It was noticed that eating a handful of nuts in men causes rage, and the kernels were specially eaten before the battle.
- The ancient Greeks used chinariki as an aphrodisiac.
- Scandinavians were added to flour when baking bread.
- The French have come up with a recipe for a drink that has long been called acorn coffee.
- The Germans still use plane trees to make butter and replace Provence in their dishes. They even made margarine from it.
- The cake after pressing the oil goes to livestock feed.
In Crimea, they are frightened by terrible legends in which a "magic drink" from these nuts appears. So that tourists do not climb the mountains one by one, they are told how a woman who uses it attacked men in the mountains, and that she lives there now.
Chinariks are called not only beech nuts, but also oyster mushrooms that grow on beech trunks.
Beech nuts are widely used in cosmetology. Home remedies with this ingredient prevent the development of fine wrinkles, eliminate acne, restore the integrity of the skin and reduce the severity of stretch marks. Masks are suitable not only for the skin, but also for the hair - they stimulate the growth and strengthen the hair follicles.
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If you find yourself in the mountainous regions of Crimea or the Caucasus in autumn, it is worth spending time collecting beech nuts. In the future, they can be used as additives to dishes or components for anti-aging procedures. It is only necessary to check with local residents in advance what the plane trees look like. Sometimes the fruits fall off in a plyus, and then most of all they look like small horse chestnuts.
