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Boiled Peanuts
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miscellaneous
1 peck green peanuts; (1/4 bushel)
3/4 cup salt
Start with the freshest raw peanuts you can get, do not shell. Place in sink and rinse clean. Place peanuts into a large stock pot and cover with water (twice the volume of water to peanuts). Turn stove on high and boil for 2 hrs. Remove from heat and add salt and let soak for at least 3 hrs or overnight.
(note: white peanuts are preferred to spanish red peanuts; green peanuts are fresh out of the ground and treated like a perishable vegetable; raw peanuts have dried to varying stages and will require considerable more time to cook, 3-4hrs.)
(subt: 1/3c salt to 3 lbs peanuts)
Contributor: W David Griggs (Eutawville, SC)
Yield: 8 servings
Preparation Time: 10