Nuts

Labor Day

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Labor Day is an early-ripening chestnut cultivar name familiar to North American growers who want nuts before hard frost—handy for markets timed to late summer and early autumn. Earlier harvest can mean first roasting nuts of the season when later cultivars are still green. Flavour is still sweet chestnut when ripe; earliness is the agricultural story. A good Labor Day nut is fully filled despite the calendar. A bad one is picked too eager and tastes thin. Cook soon after proper curing. For purees and flour, later main-crop nuts often dominate volume, while Labor Day shines as fresh early roast stock.