Black Walnut
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2016
- It's the time of year to harvest and process black walnuts. They are a great survival food. Join me as I show you how to process them.
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Growing up in California we did these by the thousands. Just spread them out and drove a small car over them to split. Lost a few but saved a ton of time. Great informative video!
Thanks Daisy. Yes, a car would be a fast way to de-husk a lot at one time. Thanks for watching!
To crack walnuts, I bought an inexpensive arbor press from Harbor Freight and it does a great job of splitting the nuts once you have dried them after shucking.
i have an old pecan cracker that was my husband's grandmothers. i'm wondering if it will be strong enough. i don't want to break the cracker!
We never pick them until the outer shell was black because the nut is not mature until then, and them it come off easely
I have tons of them and no time to process this year. My mom didn't want to lose them when I was growing up on the dairy farm due to lack of time, so she figured a quicker way to crack them. She laid a sheet of plywood over a bunch of them and drove the car over it. It worked, LOL. Then we'd put them in egg baskets to cure, and would pick them out over the winter. Spent many hours over the winter picking walnut meat! And they are my favorite nuts! Mike's mom makes wonderful walnut slice cookies. I have chestnuts as well and they are delicious. I actually make them in the microwave. I thought of you today, found the perfect puff ball mushroom (Calvatia gigantea), and cooked it up in some butter. Yum.
Thanks Helga for the memory you shared. Walnuts are very tasty. I too like chestnuts. I was drooling yesterday when you mentioned the puffball with garlic and butter. Yummy!
I have 5 mature black walnut trees in my back yard. this is a heavy production produce year. triple cluster are the norm. We wait till they hit the ground. then wait until they turn brown. It is much easier to peel. of course I use a corn sheller to take the husk off . I used to wash them in a maytag clothes washer but I just dry the nut now and crack them afterwards. Jugalone . It will inhibit certain plant growth. It killed off the grapes I planted for example.
Wow! Triple clusters eh? A corn sheller is a great idea. I thought that the jugalone would kill my poison ivy but apparently they are one of the plants tolerant to it.
Hickory nuts are notoriously difficult to crack. Quite by accident, I discovered that drying them by applying heat to the soaked, wet nuts causes the shells to fracture. After the shells are fissured, place them in the freezer. After thoroughly chilled, the shells will fracture into small pieces when cracked in a vise. The nuts can then be removed without the use of a nut pick. Perhaps, some version of this process might work on black walnuts.
Thanks for the great tip. I'll have to try this out next year.
Thanks for sharing and bringing back fond memories of my youth. I remember when I was a kid, we would spread the walnuts out on our gravel driveway and let visitors drive over them to remove the hulls.
Ya, driving over them is a great way to remove the hulls. Smashing them with a hammer is therapeutic though. LOL.
no wonder i see the squirrels eating them in the middle of the road!!
My grandmother had a couple black walnut trees. My brother and I would sit on the sidewalk and crack those things with hammers. I think we waited til the skins were blacker before we cracked them. The nuts are so hard. We used nut picks to get the nut meat out. They were always fine to eat then. They are a messy tree when the nuts fall on ground. Gram finally had the trees cut down. They are tasty nuts, especially to cook with. This brought back good memories. Thanks! 🐱💞
So glad I brought back nice memories!
We always picked them up after they fall to the ground & turn black. I want one of these trees in my yard but lots of people that have these say they don't like them because of the nuts and the lawn mower don't get along. LOL People getting too lazy to pick them up.
Loved this video reminds me of way back long ago.
Thanks Calvin. I have an aversion to the walnut husk maggot that lives in the rotten shells. They gross me out. lol. I collect them green just off the tree to avoid that as much as possible.
Nice, brings back memories of living at my Grandfather's house in the late 60s. His method was a bit different but similar in results. If I smell black walnuts green, the wood or the taste of black walnut meat and be instantly connected to my youth. It takes me back to those days sitting on my Papaw's front porch, with my siblings, cracking black walnuts with a hammer on a brick and picking the meat out with clean bobby pins. Thanks for sharing and you should bake some black walnut bread for a nice treat!
Thank you for sharing this memory. Sounds like wonderful times with your grandpa. Mmmmm, walnut bread sounds great!
Such a great resource!
It was the first time I did this. It worked so well.
I found two trees on the side road during my walks. I only picked from one tree every week though. Gathered about 4 5lb. buckets worth. They are alot of work to process. But, I'm still eating them in February 2019 from September-November 2018. I have about half way to go. So I guess all the stomping and washing was worth it after all. I made candied walnuts, ate them plain, made a some trail mix with m&m candy and mini snickers chunks and I also want to put them in a banana bread as well. Good post.
Wonderful!! Thanknfor sharing. Sounds like you made some tasty food.
If you put them out in the sun for 2 - 4 hours after washing, they resist mold, much better.
don't have any around my place. Very interesting all the same.
Great share!!
Thanks Adam, I'm glad you liked it.
my mom and dad used to gather them and my grandma would pend hours picking the nuts out of the shells. brings back memories.
Awesome memories.
I have a few black walnut trees in the yard, messiest tree there is... sadly I have the second messiest tree, a willow! lol
I have used onion bags to dry and store them, hung them under the lean-to roof behind the garage. They are a lot of work, but they are delicious!
Yes, they are messy. The squirrels drag them all over the yard. One squirrel used my lawn chair to sit on while husking them. Now it is all stained :(
@@TheWildYam i am letting them use my deck. i won't mind the stains. they will be memories!
great stuff walnuts for Christmas.
For sure! I'll start to roast chestnuts soon. Yum!
that black juice is called iodine and the shell can be given to goats. they adore the green shells. When you get a cut out and about, rub the inside f the green shell on your cut and it will sterilize it.
Very interesting I didn't realize there was that much to curing walnuts ,as their are none in my area! Thanks Jen for sharing,you have a very good channel to watch! Its very informative and you present many good tips on a variety of topics! Take care see you in the next one!
Thank you Lynn. It was a lot of fun to prepare them. They taste so good that all the work is worth it.
Thanks Jen and thanks for sharing your knowledge on the walnuts---see ya on the chat tonight, Migwech
You're welcome Kirk. I had a lot of fun preparing them. Smashing them with a hammer was very therapeutic! lol
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Thank you! You've helped me identify a tree in my backyard.
Yumm Yumm I can taste the Banana Bread as we speak ha ha ATB Terry God Bless
Mmmm banana bread with walnuts. Awesome idea!
They are the very best in old fashioned fudge.
Yum!
Use the shells to blue gun parts
great stuff now I just need some walnut trees around here..lol, I have been wanting to try the husks for dye
I have a few cups of hulls that I dried that you could use for dye (clothing, traps etc). If you want me to mail them to you, PM me your address.
I still need to get you what you wanted but if you want to ok, I have a few things in mind for you also when I have it ready I will pm you for yours
Thanks Peter.
Wait till they turn black before trying to clean off the shell. Plus put them in your driveway and drive over them till the black shell fall off. You need to let the walnuts dry more before trying to use them. The one you cracked was still green and the will not taste right
Thanks for the great advise.
Hermit cookies? Oh that needs to be a video please :)
Great idea Colin! I'll have to do that soon.
Hermit cookies are my favorite too wqe used to get them from Eaton's bakery downtown Winnipeg when I was a kid and still love them today unfortunately Eaton's is no longer. I have tried Safeway's hermit cookies but they are not the same. I was thinking of planting a black walnut tree in the yard and now I know how to process them.
Hermit cookies take me back to my childhood. My mum used to pick them up as a special treat from a bakery down the street from us when I was little. It will take about 10-12 years for a young black walnut tree to produce nuts once planted.
I am still young so it'll be worth the wait. :)
I have a smaller one beside the house and it is growing faster than I thought. I can't wait til it produces nuts too.
My daughter wants a cheery tree in the yard to she likes the flowers it produces it's on my to do list have to finish the landscaping first.
They are nice. We had a black cherry when I was a kid. The birds loved it too!
You might mention to pitch the cleaned walnuts in a bucket of water and discard those that float to the top. They've dried up inside and cracking them is a waste of time.
Good point.
super kool lot of work but well worth it
Very worth it. They are very tasty. Thanks for watching!
I happen to have a black walnut tree too. I had a question regarding tree care. Did you put any vitamins around the tree to improve size of the walnuts? Do you have any issues with pest, like raccoons, squirrels, and crows?
cool video jen never saw one on till today very interesting, maybe if you put them in a mesh bag from the start and hang them in front of a fan to dry, just a thought , have a good week:):)
I agree. This summer was humid for us and I think the circulation around the walnuts was sub-par when I first started to dry them. I think I'll try that next time or put them in the oven from the beginning.
Idk of the poison ivy we have around our tree evolved to be resistant or if it doesn't actually repel poison ivy, but we have it around our tree so i gotta be careful harvesting my walnuts
Hey there! would you by chance have any seeds available for purchase? These are harder to find then I thought!
The surface mold will grow if there is green flesh left on the shells. Its much easier to get the hulls (and flesh off) if they are blackened a bit and soft. Its an icky process but better than the extra work it takes to get the tough flesh off, and mold.
Great idea!
My sister has several walnut trees on their property in central Michigan. She doesn't want to harvest the nuts, but I do. Can she gather the nuts and store them, unhusked, in a cool, dry place for several months until I can visit and process them?
saw a video where the guy waits for the hulls to turn black before he cleans them up. should be cool enough in MI. maybe they'll be ok!
I have use about everything to get the Black Walnut stain out of my hands.The only thing that I have found to work is to sand the stains out with 150 grit @t sounds crazy, but it @t must keep your hands dry for this to be effective,so don't wet them @t a few days of sanding the stains will be mostly gone.After the sanding you might wash the hands with a solution of oxiclean to get some of the remaining stains out..
Ok cool. The gloves worked great
I have thousands of them on the ground at the back of my yard. Two weeks ago I stumbled right out of my shoes trying to walk back there, and guess what colour my feet are now! Used a foot file but it didn’t help much.
@@simpleshoes I've heard lemon and salt kinda works but I have never tried it
Fanny Buster I’ll try that! Otherwise, time will take care of it and socks hide it. LOL
Couldn't you put them in oven on very low temp or dehydrate? Faster than 2 weeks
Have you ever tasted hickory nuts? They are delicious and so easy to peel.
No. I'd love to someday
Yes we had one of these trees and boy try to shell them your finger turned green for trying to take off cover with no gloves.
Yup! Lol
Reminder that tomatoes DO NOT grow near walnut trees. Be aware of where you deposit shells.
"Princess Auto". You're Canadian.
LOL. Very true.
Me too 🇨🇦
I tried planting 30 of them last year and not one grew. I didn't know you could eat them too.
Really? Man I love these. Mayfield Ice cream makes this walnut flavored ice cream it's my all time favorite!
Calvin's Corner72 did you ever plant them, I just stuck them in the ground as is and nothing. LOL
They prefer full sun and very well drained soil. Also, the squirrels may have found them on you (this happened to my mother-in-law after she planted lots of them). You could try putting a bit of gravel on top of the nut and burying it to deter the squirrels as they don't like digging in gravel.
they come up here volunteer , but I have planted them as well, just put them in the ground not too deep, maybe an inch or so in the fall and then in the spring they will come up.. I put a little patch of hardware cloth or chicken wire over them to keep the squirrels for digging them up but remove it in the spring. It is possible that you had bad seeds..
Hard wook seeds need to be spodified
U tube has lots of videos on best way to start from seed
I can taste the walnuts now
Shag bark hickery are great also
If you did not wash them and just air dry what would happy
They would mold and attract fly maggots
Yours look like most of the nut inside is meat. The ones I tried are only 25% meat inside. Any reason why?
For years we never attempted to pich green walnuts! You need to wait until the first frost when they drop to the ground and their outer green shell turns black overnight. Now they are ripe and suitable for processing. YOU DON'T ATTEMPT TO PROCESS A GREEN WALNUT ! ! !
Can I buy that anvil off of you?? Lol
You’re so pretty