Recipe - Boiled Peanuts

1 pound Raw unshelled peanuts
1 One half Whole Bat Kok (chinese star
anise)
4 qt Water
One half (up to)
1 cup Hawaiian salt (depends on
amount of saltiness
desired)

Rinse peanuts until water is clear. Combine the peanuts with Hawaiian
salt and 4 quarts water in an 8quart pressure cooker. Let soak overnight.
Add the bat kok, then cover the pressure cooker. Bring pressure up to 15
pounds and cook for 1 hour, keeping pressure constant at 15 pounds. Release
pressure according to manufacturer's directions. Let soak for 30 minutes
more. Drain water.

To cook without pressure cooker: Soak peanuts and cook with bat kok for 3
hours, simmering gently. If more water is needed, add more accordingly to
keep the peanuts wet.

Note: If peanuts are too salty, drain salted water and rinse with fresh
water.

TIME INCLUDES SOAKING OVERNIGHT

From a book of my mother's (Judy Hosey) titled Senator Richard Matsuura's
Favorite Recipes, mostly Japanese and Hawaiian. Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.