Black Walnuts - Traci

[Guest guest]

It is a whole lot easier than hickory nuts I promise you. It is a gift to

your family and you can pick walnut out of a cracked one, fairly easy and is a

good size nut meat.

 

We made it a family pow wow time of talking and it's not so bad when several of

you are doing it. Remember the quilting bee's that bonded folks together in

friendship.

Judy

 

 

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Traci Vujicich

Friday, September 19, 2008 8:42 PM

Re: Black Walnuts

 

 

Dang! I wouldn't even do all that if they were filled with gold! You must

like you some walnuts.

 

 

--- On Fri, 9/19/08, wwjd <jtwigg wrote:

 

wwjd <jtwigg

Black Walnuts

" vegetarian_ group "

Friday, September 19, 2008, 6:05 PM

 

We had a black walnut tree in our yard, when I was growing up. To get off

the green hull, we would put a big pile of them on the drive way and drive

back on and forth over them with our car. Then leave them a few days to

dry out the green part. Put them in a bucket, set up a chair beside a cut

log, that is cut side up and down, about 3 ft tall, and get a hammer. We

would then pull off any remaining green hull and hammer then, to crack them

open, on the cut log. We set up an empty dishpan or bucket on the other

side of us and dropped them into it, to shell out after we were finished

cracking that batch of nuts.

 

Freeze them, so they won't go rancid on you. They are way to good to let

that happen to them.

 

Chopped up Black walnuts are so good in loaves, patties, cookies, etc....

I prefer them to English Walnuts.

 

Enjoy,

Judy

 

[Guest guest]

" It is a whole lot easier than hickory nuts I promise you. It is a gift to your

family and you can pick walnut out of a cracked one, fairly easy and is a good

size nut meat.

 

We made it a family pow wow time of talking and it's not so bad when several of

you are doing it. Remember the quilting bee's that bonded folks together in

friendship. "

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I need to get out of LA. It seems there is this whole wonderful world out there

that has nothing to do with Botox!

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Well, I have a hickory tree but didn't know that you could do anything with the

nuts. What do you use them for. I live alone so nut bee for me :>(

Diana

[Guest guest]

I used to have hickory trees when I lived in Athens, Texas....about 60 miles

west from where we live now. I was so excited when I first discovered there

were hickory trees. The nuts are just the devil to crack and get the nut meat

out as these dang black walnuts but at least the hull usually fell off by itself

and the hickory nuts were not as hard to get to as the black walnuts. I love

the smooth outer texture of the hickory shell. And, I love the taste of

hickory nuts....not as distinctive as a black walnut but very, very good. I

used to put the hickory nuts in the freezer......then take them out and crack

them with a hammer.....still takes a long time to get the nut meats out though.

I wish I still had just one hickory tree. We have this really huge, really old

black walnut which is right outside out back fence.....and then we have a huge

papershell pecan out in the woods behind the fire station....which butts right

up against our land. I have a pecan picker-upper gadget....don't know what the

real name is.....that I found at a garage sale that makes picking up pecans so

easy.

 

I love history.....so when I think of hickory nuts, I think of President

Andrew Jackson also known as " Old Hickory " .....one of the reasons I always

remembered who he was on tests in grade school!!

Nancy C.

 

 

Well, I have a hickory tree but didn't know that you could do anything with

the nuts. What do you use them for. I live alone so nut bee for me :>(

Diana