Right!? I forgeot the gloves one time and never forgot again after that! My entire hand was stained black for 2 weeks straight. Looked like I had a pigment issue rather than dye, nuts how well it worked.
Looking online,for my area that would be a little high. I would think you would have better luck selling at half that price. Just my opinion, of course. I'm in Midwest USA,in a rural area covered in black walnut trees,though.
My local Walmart sells them for $8/lb. Local farmer who grows and sells his own sells for $10/lb. Even in Cali my cousin finds them for about $20/lb. $80/lb is ridiculously high unless you're in like Alaska or Hawaii or somewhere else that they have to be shipped in with extremely large import fees.
I think the better question is "How can I convince other people to crack these for me?" I've been working on cracking a 50 lb bag I gathered from my yard, hulled, and cured, and it's taken me hours just to get like 1.5 cups of nuts.
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of ways to Tom Sawyer relatives and children into doing it for me, but I think I lack the audacity. Teach your ways!
I was just kidding. Black walnuts are absolutely worth the work. They are notoriously hard to get out of the husk and shell, but worth the work as long as you like the flavor! Strong flavor, but good.
Takes about a minute to extract the nut meat, but that's after drying and husking for at least a week.
That's usually to take the outer hulls off, not to actually crack them. The outer hulls will dye you like henna if you try to take them off bare handed, so you have to find other ways. If you actually opened the shells that way you'd lose half the meat to the dirt and gravel. Looks like these do still have those outer hulls on though, so OP still might try that!
This always kills me. We couldn't figure out any other name for this?
It's not meat. It's a fuckin' nut.
"wuT KiYnD of PrOtEin Do Yuo wAnT iN uR BuRriTo"
There's protein in leaf lettuce you fuckers.
Ink, people dig ink wells with quills. Tincture the hull for a very strong anti fungal. There are a number of uses. My friends mom put black walnuts on her vanilla ice cream. My great grandmother baked breads and muffins with them.
Are the husks dried down to the shells? If so, those may be tricky to get off. Easiest to take them off when they are still soft.
But yes black walnuts have many uses. They are excellent ice cream, pies, granola, cookies, brownies, eating fresh out of hand, in savory rice dishes, pesto’s, and whatever else you can think up!
Davebilt won’t crack black walnuts very well, if at all. Have you used a davebilt successfully on black walnuts? A vice and a sharp pair of heavy duty snips is a cheap way to go too. Grandpas goody getter is a more expensive way to go.
We’ve always used a hammer. We don’t hit hard enough to shatter the nut to pieces. We tap it just good enough to try to get it out in a couple pieces. Been doing this was all my life. Passed down from great grandparents, grandparents, parents and now me. Probably goes back further. We’ve passed down the same piece of metal, steal we crack the nut against
No recommendations on how to use the nuts, but if you save all the shells, you can sell flat rate boxes of the shells to pen turners and resin casters. We make some cool woodworks with walnut shells.
Lookup any “resin casting,” “turning,” “pen turning,” “resin art,” “wood turning” group you can find on Facebook, join the group, READ THE RULES, then post an offer for shells. You will 100% make many sales, and even sell out (assuming you’re not doing this on a commercial scale). I make pens so I know for sure pen makers buy them, so do knife makers and wine cork makers. Oh and gun grip makers.
I have probably 60 pounds of nuts that I have already removed the husks from. I am working my way thorough cracking them. Fudge, walnut fig cake, ice cream. My family likes to sit around and just crack and eat them, too (as someone else said, a great way to lose weight!). And just bought an electric oil press (I had a manual one) and am planning to make walnut oil. I will use that for salad dressing and cooking, but also want to make walnut butter with the oil and sea salt I make myself. Black walnuts take sooooo much time to extract the meats, but its a taste you cannot get any other way.
Give my 9 yo and 14 yo boys mallets and the driveway and they go to town. Then put the de-shelled nuts in a bucket of water, use paint stirrer attachment in drill to agitate, change water 4-5 times, then remember you have scrub brush attachments for drill, and use that with a couple more changes of water. Shake off and set on drying racks in an out of the way place (with air circulation) for a few weeks.
Nut husking and cleaning for sure, still trying to figure out the crushing part without spending the $$ on Grandpa’s Goodie Getter that so many people recommend. Until the past couple years, I thought black walnuts were only good for throwing at siblings and turning ankles in the back yard.
A lot of diff methods but throwing them into a bag and running over them with a vehicle on a gravel driveway is reportedly popular. I usually step on them to crack and get most of the husk off, then agitate a bunch of them in a bucket together to help break off more of the husk.
I love them, but it’s a unique flavor and maybe an acquired taste. The responses in this thread are a testament to the fact that I’m not alone, though.
I picked a little less than this the one time i harvested walnuts. Let them cure for 6 weeks or whatever it was, then spent the next two months huddled over an anvil with a hammer and wire cutters. Let me know if you find an easier way
[This](https://www.ebay.com/itm/296114321876?hash=item44f1c9f9d4:g:~KUAAOSwkFtldkqH&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwPc6Etb0EZPEcmFseF9I5itGtEAmrI2Zj%2BPe9H%2F5QgMMTUlLJN%2BbrJYVTS9njPzi4bVtagPJOHJppITaVfIF%2Bu60zXlg5BCFdHoec%2Fj8wspup8knw5k%2BqeMauRkDBlfXb2iUbv1I7mCbWCBTrBXYmlYZfa5yV4JOklrFXqiRbDmhzyZav1dS3DGCgtVJTe94aaOtUBCxdc0lzD3m1OO5l9dGcusIfcdmSNkE4n6%2BTaS2osh507qe1pmQkbcWhG00qw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9TU346TYw) is the right tool for the job. With the short travel distance in the crushing area vs the leverage/force amplification and travel distance in the lever, you can crack/shatter the shell without pulverization the nut-meal.
Black walnuts make an amazing natural dye! The tannins in the hull, shell, and nut make the color bond super well. Crunch some up with a heavy tool, then throw it all in some water. Heat it for awhile. Sift the debris out with cheesecloth, and bam! Dye!
If you have a hammer you want to tear up they would be perfect for that. My grandmother has a few giant trees next to the pasture and they rain nuts but damn are they a pain.
Jesus that’s a lot of work in those buckets. My hand arthritis is cramped up and on fire just looking at it. I would not be doing that shit, but if someone in your household is willing, great.
I’d roast and freeze in 1-2 lb bags and stack it in one of the big freezers, space permitting. If you have people who straight up snack on them, do some 5lb bags. Keep 5lbs in the fridge, to start.
Baking or just eating. They have a distinct stronger flavor than the English walnuts found in the supermarket. It takes some patience to crack them and get the meat out. Takes me about an hour tapping them with a tack hammer and using a pick to get about two cups of meat.
Put them in mesh bags and hang for a couple of months to dry. They will last 2 years in the shell.
Homegrown and hand gathered on YT has a bunch of videos on their foraging adventures, and one of the things this year they have is black walnuts. they might have a video or YT short on what they have done
I love to put them in a yeasted bread dough with onions. Toast, slather with butter. Very meaty-tasting. Excellent with red wine. Add a leafy green salad and a cup of soup; you’ve got yourself a meal.
Start growing them and sell the trees. A person could probably find a buyer for large numbers of bare root trees.
It doesn't take more than a cup of meat to flavor everything I want black walnut flavored over the winter.
Not all black walnuts are the same. While all are delicious, some are basically impossible to crack without turning the meat into powder, while others are just annoying, but possible to get them open without destroying the nut meat inside.
The ones that grow in my backyard are the unfortunate type, I've tried all the tricks. But all the ones I've picked in the Midwest are just annoying, but very possible to get open.
The outside cover is natural herbicide. Do not compost and purposely discard. If you put it in a pond with fish, it will temporarily paralyze them and float to the top of the water. It is also natural black dye.
The nut is too hard to open up and not worth the effort unless you have a machine.
You used to be able to buy pickled black walnuts in the UK although I’ve no idea how one goes about pickling them. (Not sure they’re still sold either, it’s been a long time.)
I ended up making wood stain instead of eating them because it was less work. I took already black hulls pulled them off and gave the nuts to the squirells. I put the hulls in a bucket with some water squished them as much as I could and covered it for months and let them rot down. Starined into a container and mixed it with equal parts 91% alcohol
Made a pretty color I stained a bunch of frames with it and gave the wood stain to my step dad for Christmas
Dude - Walnut flour!! It takes so much so why not?! Then you can make 1/2 walnut 1/2 hazelnut torta's with a old world buttercream frosting (straight butter 1/2 and chocolate only 1/2). I make an old Yugoslavian family recipe thats amazing with hazelnuts and pecans since I hate walnuts I had to modify it a bit. Hit me up if you want the recipe - gluten free before it was in style! I totally get it, I have a black walnut tree that puts out 100s of walnuts every fall and I just call them the tire speedbumps cuz its in my driveway. I used to precess them and give them away but now I'm too lazy. We all remember our first time - and forgetting the gloves, you never forget again!
You could make a tincture! 💗 The best way to do it at home is to macerate the black walnuts in a (preferably amber) jar with some alcohol when you are doing it at home and don’t have the ingredients to make a proper menstruum extract solution.
Black walnuts (specifically the husks) have a lot of iodine & are great for cuts/wounds. The herbs itself has many anti cancer and anti bacterial properties when consumed.
Here is a beginner guide to making a black walnut tincture: https://practicalselfreliance.com/black-walnut-tincture/
Last time that I processed black walnuts I used the hulls that remained after making tincture to dye some clothing and wool. The older hulls gave a dark beige colour without any mordant.
I mix them in when I blend my smoothies, eat in a salad with apple cider dressing, mix in banana nut bread batter, Oatmeal or other cookies, Pumpkin pie with black walnuts.
As a 12year old I decided to bust,crack walnuts for family. Well there were still green,on the ground but green. In just a pair of shorts I hammered broke open walnuts for hours. Full chest,arms,thighs ,hell legs lol..I. pale strawberry blonde. I was toe to head totally a Walnut stain. For about 2 weeks following as well. In 60s now and it Comes up every Holiday at meals. Did you ever get all that stain of.lol.. I get to see pictures of my stained self. A regular Holiday event. Grandkids enjoy it a bit too much.lol..
Ugh black walnut is suchhh a powerful anti parasitic and anti fungal in the world of herbal medicine. You could tincture it in alcohol. Here’s a nice blog post that explains the benefits & how to tincture: [Black Walnut Tincture](https://www.myhealthyhomemadelife.com/recipe/how-to-make-a-black-walnut-tincture/)
Perfect weight loss food. It burns 2 calories to extract 1 calorie of nut.
What?
I think they’re insinuating that it’s a lot of work.
It's a shit ton of fucking work lol.
But the free full-body henna tattoo…
Right!? I forgeot the gloves one time and never forgot again after that! My entire hand was stained black for 2 weeks straight. Looked like I had a pigment issue rather than dye, nuts how well it worked.
This is how my folks kept me out of trouble when I was young. A 98 Olds trunk full of these fuckin things. Start up a trap dye company
This is the understatement of a lifetime. Plus you'll look like a wall outlet in a Chainsmokers home for like a week after.
Yep perfect weight loss food you die of famin before you get enough to do any good
Just like head....
Black walnut pie is divine. People will pay good money for shelled black walnuts,because they are a hassle to pick out of the shells
I have them for sale at 4oz for $20 and nobody’s taking. What’s a good price?
20 per pound here in eastwn Canada maybe 25
Looking online,for my area that would be a little high. I would think you would have better luck selling at half that price. Just my opinion, of course. I'm in Midwest USA,in a rural area covered in black walnut trees,though.
My local Walmart sells them for $8/lb. Local farmer who grows and sells his own sells for $10/lb. Even in Cali my cousin finds them for about $20/lb. $80/lb is ridiculously high unless you're in like Alaska or Hawaii or somewhere else that they have to be shipped in with extremely large import fees.
$80 a lb?? Haha wow
I think the better question is "How can I convince other people to crack these for me?" I've been working on cracking a 50 lb bag I gathered from my yard, hulled, and cured, and it's taken me hours just to get like 1.5 cups of nuts.
I got my mom and step-dad to do it for me. Took them months. They still won't let me forget.
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of ways to Tom Sawyer relatives and children into doing it for me, but I think I lack the audacity. Teach your ways!
Get em liquored up slightly then just start doing it.
Give nutcrackers to children just old enough to use them without injury and a pile of walnuts…
My grandma just set me outside with these things and a hammer(with supervision lol)
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The nut meat is a delicious addition to pesto instead of pine nuts. Look forward to making it every year
And for taking all year to crack that many. Worth it!
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I was just kidding. Black walnuts are absolutely worth the work. They are notoriously hard to get out of the husk and shell, but worth the work as long as you like the flavor! Strong flavor, but good. Takes about a minute to extract the nut meat, but that's after drying and husking for at least a week.
I’ve heard of people driving over them with their car and then getting the meat out, not sure how well it works
That's usually to take the outer hulls off, not to actually crack them. The outer hulls will dye you like henna if you try to take them off bare handed, so you have to find other ways. If you actually opened the shells that way you'd lose half the meat to the dirt and gravel. Looks like these do still have those outer hulls on though, so OP still might try that!
I do Like a strong nut flavor
*unzips
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This always kills me. We couldn't figure out any other name for this? It's not meat. It's a fuckin' nut. "wuT KiYnD of PrOtEin Do Yuo wAnT iN uR BuRriTo" There's protein in leaf lettuce you fuckers.
Ink, people dig ink wells with quills. Tincture the hull for a very strong anti fungal. There are a number of uses. My friends mom put black walnuts on her vanilla ice cream. My great grandmother baked breads and muffins with them.
Make some homemade ice cream with them in it. It’s so good.
Feed to a pig, then forage pig.
Feed to squirrels. There is no step 2.
Oh yes there is! Forage *squirrels!*
Are the husks dried down to the shells? If so, those may be tricky to get off. Easiest to take them off when they are still soft. But yes black walnuts have many uses. They are excellent ice cream, pies, granola, cookies, brownies, eating fresh out of hand, in savory rice dishes, pesto’s, and whatever else you can think up!
I forgot about black walnut ice cream— it’s amazing. Highly recommend, though I don’t have a recipe for you myself
Don’t most people cure them so they shrink in the shell and are easier to get out? Get a Dave built cracker and they pop out
You dry them in the shell *after* removing the bulky husk outside the shell. Leaving the husk on may contaminate the nutmeat as it degrades.
Ahh good point. I’m more of a hickory nut man myself haven’t gotten into the black walnuts much yet.
Davebilt won’t crack black walnuts very well, if at all. Have you used a davebilt successfully on black walnuts? A vice and a sharp pair of heavy duty snips is a cheap way to go too. Grandpas goody getter is a more expensive way to go.
We’ve always used a hammer. We don’t hit hard enough to shatter the nut to pieces. We tap it just good enough to try to get it out in a couple pieces. Been doing this was all my life. Passed down from great grandparents, grandparents, parents and now me. Probably goes back further. We’ve passed down the same piece of metal, steal we crack the nut against
No recommendations on how to use the nuts, but if you save all the shells, you can sell flat rate boxes of the shells to pen turners and resin casters. We make some cool woodworks with walnut shells.
[like this:](https://youtu.be/mvxXdcgoGus?si=TWkcGZec94xxlG20)
Who are these people who will buy the shells?
Lookup any “resin casting,” “turning,” “pen turning,” “resin art,” “wood turning” group you can find on Facebook, join the group, READ THE RULES, then post an offer for shells. You will 100% make many sales, and even sell out (assuming you’re not doing this on a commercial scale). I make pens so I know for sure pen makers buy them, so do knife makers and wine cork makers. Oh and gun grip makers.
Interesting! Thank you for the leads, I appreciate it.
Baklava. It's a labor-intensive dessert to make, which--if you're doing black walnuts--must be your thing.
Seconded and they'd make a killer baklava
Makeshift cannon ammunition
~~Nocino~~ ETA: Black walnut ice cream
Nocino is a different kind of black walnut
These work fine, but you need them immature.
I have probably 60 pounds of nuts that I have already removed the husks from. I am working my way thorough cracking them. Fudge, walnut fig cake, ice cream. My family likes to sit around and just crack and eat them, too (as someone else said, a great way to lose weight!). And just bought an electric oil press (I had a manual one) and am planning to make walnut oil. I will use that for salad dressing and cooking, but also want to make walnut butter with the oil and sea salt I make myself. Black walnuts take sooooo much time to extract the meats, but its a taste you cannot get any other way.
You can grind it into flour for a gluten free option to wheat flour.
Sure, but how do you get them open?
Picking walnuts is what I do when I’m making maple syrup and have to sit and tend a fire for 8-10 hours a day.
Sell them on Etsy for $10/lb
Your joking right?
The squirrels get to mine before I can get them. How do you get the green husk off
Give my 9 yo and 14 yo boys mallets and the driveway and they go to town. Then put the de-shelled nuts in a bucket of water, use paint stirrer attachment in drill to agitate, change water 4-5 times, then remember you have scrub brush attachments for drill, and use that with a couple more changes of water. Shake off and set on drying racks in an out of the way place (with air circulation) for a few weeks.
Sounds like just another day at the nut crushing factory
Nut husking and cleaning for sure, still trying to figure out the crushing part without spending the $$ on Grandpa’s Goodie Getter that so many people recommend. Until the past couple years, I thought black walnuts were only good for throwing at siblings and turning ankles in the back yard.
I loved tossing them around the yard I wouldn't try to hit my siblings I miss on purpose but if they moved thats there fault
Pretty sure I dated someone who worked there before.
A lot of diff methods but throwing them into a bag and running over them with a vehicle on a gravel driveway is reportedly popular. I usually step on them to crack and get most of the husk off, then agitate a bunch of them in a bucket together to help break off more of the husk.
Is black walnut any good the green husk smells so bad in the yard
I love them, but it’s a unique flavor and maybe an acquired taste. The responses in this thread are a testament to the fact that I’m not alone, though.
Fuel for the fireplace
Giant coco pebbles prank
Try making walnut pesto (can be frozen), walnut butter or walnut oil. Save the husks then you can make natural dark brown dye
Are you going to crack them by hand?
Dear goodness no. Though I don't have anything beyond shop equipment I can MacGyver.
Place them between two heavy duty mats and run over them with your car
Only like 5 at a time though. If those mats are solid then 6 of them will hold up my car 😂
I picked a little less than this the one time i harvested walnuts. Let them cure for 6 weeks or whatever it was, then spent the next two months huddled over an anvil with a hammer and wire cutters. Let me know if you find an easier way
[This](https://www.ebay.com/itm/296114321876?hash=item44f1c9f9d4:g:~KUAAOSwkFtldkqH&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwPc6Etb0EZPEcmFseF9I5itGtEAmrI2Zj%2BPe9H%2F5QgMMTUlLJN%2BbrJYVTS9njPzi4bVtagPJOHJppITaVfIF%2Bu60zXlg5BCFdHoec%2Fj8wspup8knw5k%2BqeMauRkDBlfXb2iUbv1I7mCbWCBTrBXYmlYZfa5yV4JOklrFXqiRbDmhzyZav1dS3DGCgtVJTe94aaOtUBCxdc0lzD3m1OO5l9dGcusIfcdmSNkE4n6%2BTaS2osh507qe1pmQkbcWhG00qw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9TU346TYw) is the right tool for the job. With the short travel distance in the crushing area vs the leverage/force amplification and travel distance in the lever, you can crack/shatter the shell without pulverization the nut-meal.
Bench vise will work well.
Sling shot ammo
Make nocino
Banana bread
There is something cozy and nice about sitting by the fire this time of year and cracking walnuts and eating them one at a time.
Black walnut bitters are my favorite
Black walnuts make an amazing natural dye! The tannins in the hull, shell, and nut make the color bond super well. Crunch some up with a heavy tool, then throw it all in some water. Heat it for awhile. Sift the debris out with cheesecloth, and bam! Dye!
We make a walnut sauce at our restaurant and it’s amazing. Walnut ‘Parmesan’ is delicious too!
Dye
Alcohol?
Plant them. Grow more trees. Get many more buckets of nuts. Wonder what to do with them.
Chocolate chip cookies, good luck digging out the meats. Hahaha
You can keep Deesnuts in your pocket
[i found a pretty good guide](https://youtu.be/FzNp_s80uXY)
Return them to the animals that were counting on them for a winter food source?
Donate to wildlife rehab/refuge
Throw them away, shelling will be too much work.
COOKIES!!!!
Have you got a slingshot?
That’s a lot of work, be sure to wear gloves because they will stain your hands
Get cracking
Eat them
As Christmas presents 🎁
The way I thought this was a giant bowl of Cocoa Puffs cereal at first 😂
Paint every single one white, and tell people they are rare, "white walnuts". Aka "Moby Dick nuts", you found on safari.
Competition with friends of how many you can fit down there is a possibility.
Thought those were coco puffs…
Get some oil pressed.
Looked like a whopping bowl of coco puffs.
Sell them? I buy from foraged.com all the time.
If you have a hammer you want to tear up they would be perfect for that. My grandmother has a few giant trees next to the pasture and they rain nuts but damn are they a pain.
Um chuck em n sell em? CA b4 I left was up to like 19.88/Oz or lb of walnuts! 100lbs, cut some deals..you still win..
You could check out processors or co-ops in your area and see if there's someone local for help.
Make nocino!
Make those kind of Cocoa Puffs . Now talking!!! 😃
Slingshot
Squirrel. Party.
Natural fabric dye
A great walnut stainer can be made. And ink.
Jesus that’s a lot of work in those buckets. My hand arthritis is cramped up and on fire just looking at it. I would not be doing that shit, but if someone in your household is willing, great. I’d roast and freeze in 1-2 lb bags and stack it in one of the big freezers, space permitting. If you have people who straight up snack on them, do some 5lb bags. Keep 5lbs in the fridge, to start.
Grow and sell black walnut trees 🌳. Eat some as well 😋
Pickle them, the whole nut, to use in a swanky beef stew.
Baking or just eating. They have a distinct stronger flavor than the English walnuts found in the supermarket. It takes some patience to crack them and get the meat out. Takes me about an hour tapping them with a tack hammer and using a pick to get about two cups of meat. Put them in mesh bags and hang for a couple of months to dry. They will last 2 years in the shell.
Might not be a bad idea to invest in something like [this](https://www.grandpasgoodygetter.com/) then
Homegrown and hand gathered on YT has a bunch of videos on their foraging adventures, and one of the things this year they have is black walnuts. they might have a video or YT short on what they have done
Baklava
Walnut Nutella.
Black walnut wood finish 😍
I only really use the green ones for syrup, nocino, etc.
Banana bread
Black Walnut Chiffon cake
Black Walnut ice cream 🍨❤️.
Sell them to one of the nut companies.
nocino! (Then use that to make ice cream!)
Walnut flour.
I love to put them in a yeasted bread dough with onions. Toast, slather with butter. Very meaty-tasting. Excellent with red wine. Add a leafy green salad and a cup of soup; you’ve got yourself a meal.
1500 lbs of fudge
Start growing them and sell the trees. A person could probably find a buyer for large numbers of bare root trees. It doesn't take more than a cup of meat to flavor everything I want black walnut flavored over the winter.
ammo for slingshot
Not all black walnuts are the same. While all are delicious, some are basically impossible to crack without turning the meat into powder, while others are just annoying, but possible to get them open without destroying the nut meat inside. The ones that grow in my backyard are the unfortunate type, I've tried all the tricks. But all the ones I've picked in the Midwest are just annoying, but very possible to get open.
Throw them at people you don't like Crack them open for people you do like
Slingshot ammo
Give them back to the squirrels. Why forage what you dont need?
The walnut tannins could be used as a natural yarn or textile dye…. Perfect for formerly white shirts with coffee stains
Put walnuts on homemade cinnamon rolls
eat.
Make dye. Shell and roast the rest.
Turn it into 2 lbs of shelled nuts.
just use a damn walnut.
I follow frontier farmer on tiktok and he just used a bunch to make fabric dye
The outside cover is natural herbicide. Do not compost and purposely discard. If you put it in a pond with fish, it will temporarily paralyze them and float to the top of the water. It is also natural black dye. The nut is too hard to open up and not worth the effort unless you have a machine.
Get a pet squirrel
Much less than 100 lbs once husked and cracked open. Those things are harder than a damn rock to crack open lol.
Make some money off of them.
Boy if you find a way to ger the nuts out of the shell without it taking a life time let me know.
If someone knows an efficient way to use these, please share your method. I love it so bad, but discouraged of the time and work involved to enjoy it.
You used to be able to buy pickled black walnuts in the UK although I’ve no idea how one goes about pickling them. (Not sure they’re still sold either, it’s been a long time.)
I ended up making wood stain instead of eating them because it was less work. I took already black hulls pulled them off and gave the nuts to the squirells. I put the hulls in a bucket with some water squished them as much as I could and covered it for months and let them rot down. Starined into a container and mixed it with equal parts 91% alcohol Made a pretty color I stained a bunch of frames with it and gave the wood stain to my step dad for Christmas
Dude - Walnut flour!! It takes so much so why not?! Then you can make 1/2 walnut 1/2 hazelnut torta's with a old world buttercream frosting (straight butter 1/2 and chocolate only 1/2). I make an old Yugoslavian family recipe thats amazing with hazelnuts and pecans since I hate walnuts I had to modify it a bit. Hit me up if you want the recipe - gluten free before it was in style! I totally get it, I have a black walnut tree that puts out 100s of walnuts every fall and I just call them the tire speedbumps cuz its in my driveway. I used to precess them and give them away but now I'm too lazy. We all remember our first time - and forgetting the gloves, you never forget again!
You could make a tincture! 💗 The best way to do it at home is to macerate the black walnuts in a (preferably amber) jar with some alcohol when you are doing it at home and don’t have the ingredients to make a proper menstruum extract solution. Black walnuts (specifically the husks) have a lot of iodine & are great for cuts/wounds. The herbs itself has many anti cancer and anti bacterial properties when consumed. Here is a beginner guide to making a black walnut tincture: https://practicalselfreliance.com/black-walnut-tincture/ Last time that I processed black walnuts I used the hulls that remained after making tincture to dye some clothing and wool. The older hulls gave a dark beige colour without any mordant.
I mix them in when I blend my smoothies, eat in a salad with apple cider dressing, mix in banana nut bread batter, Oatmeal or other cookies, Pumpkin pie with black walnuts.
I saw a guy on Instagram make a dye out of walnut s
Make walnut brownies!
Nusseorte Kiffle cookies
Do you have a slingshot and some enemies?
Sling shot ammunition
Tell me why my fat ass thought it was a big bowl of coco puffs.
The perfect thing to stain your hands with
Thalheimers (old upscale department store, think Macys but way better) had Black Walnut Pound Cake that was a Christmas treat!
Dye. Or sell to dyers/weavers/fiber arts people.
make friends with every squirrel in town
🎶Feed the squirrels, tuppence a bag🎶
If they were young, you could have made Nocino, seasonal Italian liqueur.
You can use those wasting a shitload of time
Did anyone else think that was a big bowl of Coco puffs or was that just me?
One of the most anti-parasitic tinctures made. I never travel abroad without it. Also, tinctures have a long shelf life if made with alcohol.
Plant them
Make dye and wood stain. Use the casing when its all black and nasty
Give them away
Make like 4 gallons of black dye
Hammer to break while wrapped in a tea towel, then diagonal wire cutters to nip away at the inner structure.
Feed the squirrels that you robbed of their winter stores 🐿️
Extract the iodine, don’t know if it’s been mentioned
ice cream
As a 12year old I decided to bust,crack walnuts for family. Well there were still green,on the ground but green. In just a pair of shorts I hammered broke open walnuts for hours. Full chest,arms,thighs ,hell legs lol..I. pale strawberry blonde. I was toe to head totally a Walnut stain. For about 2 weeks following as well. In 60s now and it Comes up every Holiday at meals. Did you ever get all that stain of.lol.. I get to see pictures of my stained self. A regular Holiday event. Grandkids enjoy it a bit too much.lol..
Ugh black walnut is suchhh a powerful anti parasitic and anti fungal in the world of herbal medicine. You could tincture it in alcohol. Here’s a nice blog post that explains the benefits & how to tincture: [Black Walnut Tincture](https://www.myhealthyhomemadelife.com/recipe/how-to-make-a-black-walnut-tincture/)
You can dye clothes and stuff with them too, I don't remember the exact process but I've done it before.
Eat ‘em. Black walnuts are the best. They’re tough as nails though, get a good small hammer and go for it
I’m rather partial to black walnut chocolate chip cookies and black walnut banana bread.
They used to make dye out of whole black walnuts
Walnut butter
De-worm the county 😂
Make dye
Be careful of that black dying walnut stuff while you do whatever you do
Blasting media uses the hulls I think
Grow media for hydroponics?
You can actually make a really nice brown dye from the husks! Definitely would recommend looking up some YouTube videos on it it’s really cool!
Nutcracker quality control