Comments on: Chestnut Cake – Castagnaccio

By: cecilia

cecilia — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:23:46 +0000

Thanking you so very much Joan for the location where I can find chesnut flour, Cecilia//

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:57:38 +0000

This message is for Cecelia who is looking for chestnut flour. i also live in Toronto and have been looking for chestnut flour for the longest time. My husband has many memories of some recipes from his childhood using the flour. His family had chestnut orchards in the mountains of Granalgone (not sure of spelling). I finally found a 500 gr package from Aurora Foods at a Highland Farm store a few months ago. Hope you will be able to find it

By: Patty

Patty — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:43:55 +0000

@Celia I’m glad you liked it not so many people like the strong taste of chestnut flour.

By: Celia

Celia — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:43:24 +0000

Thanks Patty- It tasted great. Celia, Scotland.

By: cecilia

cecilia — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:30:43 +0000

Hi Patty I live in Toronto Canada,still having a hard time to find chesnut flour I tried some Italian
specialty shops but to no avail please let me know if you know of some store thanking you, cecilia.//

By: Patty

Patty — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:06:12 +0000

@Katherine: I finally found a site that explain how to make chestnut flour. I hope it can be helpful.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:36:34 +0000

We have our own chestnut orchard and was hoping to be able to use the chestnuts in this cake, but it calls for chestnut flour, no idea how to make chestnut flour though, any ideas would be very much appreciated. Regards, Katherine

By: Patty

Patty — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:08:21 +0000

@Cecilia: I don’t know where you live, but chestnut flour can usually be found in natural stores, here in Italy also in regular grocery stores.

By: cecilia

cecilia — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:53:32 +0000

Hi Patty having a hard time to find chesnut flour, but this recipe sounds good to me please advise, thanking you Cecilia.//

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:56:16 +0000

Dee, a springform pan is a two-piece pan with removable rind. For more info check here http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/SpringForm.htm. In any case if you don’t have one, a cake pan will be just fine.