This is our first attempt at doing something with sunflowers. After I chopped the heads off (sounds a bit like the French revolution!) I put the sunflowers in the garage to dry. It might be a bit humid in our garage, but it is also quite warm in the summer. Mostly I think we just needed them out of the house and in a place where birds and other vermin wouldn't have access to the seeds.
After a couple of weeks, the backs on some turned yellow and the leaves all either fell off or shriveled. I brought them in the house and Kathy, Jenna and I used our thumbs to get the seeds out. It was a bit more time consuming than I expected. I thought they would just fall out. Instead, bending the flower and rubbing with your thumb seemed to get them to pop out, at least for the most part.
Kathy soaked some over night in brine and then baked them. The first batch were burned. The second batch was just great.
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