Black Walnuts!

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I've got a bumper crop of black walnuts this year. If anyone is interested in getting any, let me know. I'm open to trades or other options.
Any suggestions with what I can do with the rest would be appreciated!
 

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Me, too, with that bumper crop of both walnuts and acorns. Guess I'd better get out and check the hickory for nuts.
 

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We have a bumper crop of all three.
I'm kinda worried about what winter has in store.....
I don't know what to do with hickory nuts though.
 

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It's been a huge crop of fruit on the trees this year. All of the blackberries ripened for the first time we've seen. Usually there are quite a few green ones at this time of year.

We always just shelled and froze the black walnuts. We use them in baking and I like to put them on yogurt. I'm going to be picking some up from my great Aunt here soon when I go get some grapes. Mom says she has golden delicious apples as well. Those get turned into butter.
 

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We have a bumper crop of all three.
I'm kinda worried about what winter has in store.....
I don't know what to do with hickory nuts though.
Hickory nuts are a pain to crack and remove, but delicious when used in any recipe just like walnuts. I think the hickory nuts taste a bit more buttery.

LATER: Or was that my butternuts I'm remembering. Either way, hickory nuts are well worth the work 'freeing' them from their shells. I like them better than the walnuts and winters are long here in Wisconsin.
 

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Hickories, walnuts and pecans are all in the same family. I've never eaten black walnuts, but have brought home a bag of them from the farm so I can try them. And while I've wanted to try hickories, the squirrels always beat me to them.
 

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Hickories, walnuts and pecans are all in the same family. I've never eaten black walnuts, but have brought home a bag of them from the farm so I can try them. And while I've wanted to try hickories, the squirrels always beat me to them.
Probably butternuts as well. The only way I can tell walnut from butternut trees -- before they set fruit -- is by crushing the leaves and smelling them. Butternuts have a buttery smell.
 

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Butternuts are also in the walnut family. They're also called white walnuts, so I didn't think to include them.
 

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I didn't think hickory nuts are edible?! Someone told me they weren't! Our is it that they are just to much of a passion to shell lol?
I'd love to get my hands on some good pecans! Anybody want to trade walnuts for pecans?
 
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