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The Nut Factory

PO Box 815
Greenacres, WA 99016
Toll free: (888) 239-5288
Phone: (509) 926-6666
Fax: (509) 926-3300
E-Mail Address: nuts@TheNutFactory.com

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Moving into the next year

Hi everybody!

We have been buying heavily for the new year and there are many thousands of new year items in our factory store. Many of the selections are unique.

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Throughout the store there are displays showing all kinds of interesting items

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There are a number of colorful and exciting ideas including a tin shoppe which you can also see on the web

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It is a lot of fun to visit the store. We are located at exit 293 and exit 294 on Interstate 90 in a suburb of Spokane, Washington called Greenacres. Thousands of visitors each month come to shop in the store and watch us make products. When you are in the neighborhood, stop in

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Tip of the day

The making of chocolate from the cocoa bean is an art form. Only a handful of companies exist in the United States who crush, roast and extract the chocolate liquor and make raw chocolate products.

Our favorite recipes

Apple Raisin
Almond
Upside Down Cake

2/3 cup chopped almonds
1 cup Thompson raisins
3 pounds apples, cored, pared and thinly sliced
4 Tablespoons butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
/2 cup additional brown sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
dash of nutmeg or cinnamon
1 pie pastry
yolk from one egg

Spread butter evenly over bottom of 9-1/2" glass pie plate. Sprinkle chopped almonds evenly over bottom and arrange raisins in a ring close to the rim. Make three lines of raisins across plate bottom arranged in a wheel-spoke pattern. Using the back of a spoon, press the raisins and nuts gently down into the butter coating.

Spring 2/3 cup of brown sugar evenly and press evenly into place with the bowl (back) of the spoon.

Put the pie pastry over the raisin-nut-sugar base and press against pan leaving 1/2: overhanging. Fill with sliced apples. Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar, flour, salt; sprinkle the mixture over the sliced apples. Dust the top with nutmeg or cinnamon. Turn the pastry edge up and flute the rim. Prick pastry with fork.

Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. Brush the top of the pie with diluted egg yoke. Continue baking for 40 to 45 minutes. Test apples with fork; when soft, remove. As soon as the sugar syrup in the bottom of the pie plate stops bubbling, place a large serving plate over pie and carefully invert pie and plate with the design intact.

Another tasty almond dessert: Hamentashen.

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Little known facts

Caramel and Butterscotch are made in similar ways to toffee, as is fudge. The difference is in the degree of boiling temperature and the ways in which they are cooled. This whole process uses high-heat to convert sugar. Crystallization, graininess, and whether it is brittle or smooth are simply variations of this process.

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Half a century of fun

The Nut Factory started in 1952 as a roaster of peanuts. We are located in Spokane, Washington. Over the years The Nut Factory has grown into a large snack food manufacturer. We ship over 400 product every day to businesses everywhere throughout the United States.

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