We all love our chestnuts and our log fires and so when autumn arrives what better activity than to get the neighbours in over a few bottles of cabernet sauvignon and sit around the fire discussing the harvest as you roast the chestnuts in the fireplace.
You will need around a bucket of chestnuts for 8 people
Cut a half-inch gash on flat sides and put in an chestnut pan, allowing one-half teaspoon butter to each cup chestnuts. Shake over fire until butter is melted. Put in the hot ash and let stand five minutes. Remove from fire, and with a small knife take off shells which can be discarded back on the fire!
"At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire".
Charles Dickens — A Christmas Carol
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