Hickory nuts

I was able to purchase hickory nut meat locally. Hand picked out hickory nuts. The meat is clean and free of shell particles.

When I was growing up we would pick hickory nuts by the ice cream pail full, dump into 5 gallon pails and then into feed sacks.

During the winter all these feed sacks were cracked by hand and the meats were picked out. It was and still is alot of labor.

Hickory nuts will keep an unbelievable amount of years if frozen in quart jars. 50 years? Keep them frozen.

I put some in jars and vacuum sealed some and gave the same amount away to family.

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oh man !! you gotta make hickory nut cookies with those !!!!

Iowaboy1 wrote:

oh man !! you gotta make hickory nut cookies with those !!!!

And the wife does. Nothing better!

I dont know why we do this but the things we really enjoy we tend to use the least? Why is that?

riverruns wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>iowaboy1 wrote:</div>
oh man !! you gotta make hickory nut cookies with those !!!!

And the wife does. Nothing better!

I dont know why we do this but the things we really enjoy we tend to use the least? Why is that?

its like picking raspberries down here,I will pick anywhere from three to five gallons a year of them and I only keep enough to put on a dish of ice cream or two and give the rest away,its more fun seeing the smiles on folks faces when you hand them a quart bag full.

I wish we had some hickory trees on our property. We have black walnuts, which are also very good, although a bit of an acquired taste.

My grandma would make a refrigerator cookie with hickory nuts in they were great dipped in milk. I had found recipe in my mom’s collection just the other week cleaning out the cellar. Where did you buy them?

Interesting. You put the nuts in a zip lock bag and then vac seal the zip lock bag. Do you leave the zip lock bag open to let the vac sealer suck all the air out of it as well? Never thought of doing this, seems a little overkill but hey if it works!

Nice nut meats by the way!

buck-slayer wrote:

Where did you buy them?

I have a relative that picks out the meats. I bought what he had left.

Ice Cap wrote:

Interesting. You put the nuts in a zip lock bag and then vac seal the zip lock bag. Do you leave the zip lock bag open to let the vac sealer suck all the air out of it as well? Never thought of doing this, seems a little overkill but hey if it works!

Nice nut meats by the way!

They were sold to me in the quart bags. I opened up the quart bags and then placed in vacuum seal bags. These to bags are getting sent to Texas to a relative.

Reminds me of Yul Gibbons.

Black walnuts are awesome also.

Unless you cut the trees down.

I have never had hickory nuts.Are they strong flavored like the walnuts?I am not a fan of the walnut family.I give to people i don’t like and squirrels.

Hickory nuts are not strong flavored at all in my opinion.

chuck100 wrote:

I have never had hickory nuts.Are they strong flavored like the walnuts?I am not a fan of the walnut family.I give to people i don’t like and squirrels.

growing up we had a huge black walnut tree in our yard. some years every other day the ground was piled with them. we lived on the main drag going into town from the horseshoe chain, them iowegians wound scarf them up like noones business. of course they were on the chain for the elusive iowegion walleyes!!!!!!!!