Horse Chestnuts

[hardr004]

Can you treat horse chessnuts the same way tou do and acorns to make them eddible?

 

[British Red]

No

But you can make them into bars of soap

 

[durulz]

And you can use them to organise a Conkers Tournament during lunch time at work.
That's what we did yesterday.

 

[dave53]

lets here more about the soap red regards dave

 

[British Red]

Not done it myself, but read a tutorial on it on our private forum.

I suspect google would turn something up - pretty much involves grating the kernels and pressing

 

[The Cumbrian]

And you can use them to organise a Conkers Tournament during lunch time at work.
That's what we did yesterday.

When I was working in Sweden last year there were lots of Horse Chestnut trees on site, so I tried to organize a UK v The Rest of the World Conkers Tournament ( there were Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Belgians, French, Germans, Czechs, Croations, Bosnians, Spaniards, US Citizens and Canadians working there ). In the end, it turned out to be an Anglo Irish - English - Welsh - Scottish tournament, as the rest of the world couldn't see the point of it.

Their loss.

 

[Bushwhacker]

There is starch in them but I'd guess that the amount of farting around to render it safe isn't worth the hassle.

 

[Tracyann]

take them and basically squeeze the life out of it and use the juice just a few drops in water for varicose veins or use the juice in with shampoo for shinier hair