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ube quilting 09-22-2011 03:59 PM

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skydiver70 09-22-2011 05:48 PM


Originally Posted by pollym44

Originally Posted by luv-e
Oh!!!! Lucky you having Black Walnuts!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Got any good recipes???? They're good in cakes and homemade icecream and pralines.

Yes I've got a great recipe. I will post it in the Recipe section. It's a Black Walnut Chiffon Cake. We used to have a drive-in restuarant near us, but it is closed now. My Aunt made all the cakes for the restaurant. Cake is really delicious.

skydiver70 09-22-2011 06:00 PM

Just posted recipe for Black Walnut Chiffon Cake on Recipe link. Hope you enjoy it.

busygranny 09-22-2011 06:39 PM

We have a black walnut tree and there is nothing that takes it off. We have tracked them in on our beigh carpet and it is there to stay. We don't use the nuts, the squirrels get them all, that I don't pick up. They are a messy tree but it is such a big beautiful tree, I hate to cut it down. My husband has threatened for years to chop it down, but I wont let him. He really hates the tree and I am about to give in to letting him get it cut. It is so messy.

winter012 09-22-2011 10:35 PM

I'm sure glad YOU have those black walnuts!!!! My grandma & aunts loved them but I could never stand them, unfortunately!! The trees, however are lovely, & the wood is absolutely gorgeous!!!!! As fo getting the stains out of your skin, I'd also suggest mechanics Goop & time.

dd 09-23-2011 03:40 AM


Originally Posted by Charleen DiSante
I remember my cousins and I stomping on burlap bags to get the green (staining) husks off the walnuts OOOH, yes, I too remember the fudge...

Originally Posted by dd
Now you know why the ladies used to use them for hair color in the old days. I remember stained fingers as a kid. Guess that's why grandmom always had us kids do it.ha ha


The green ones were always thrown in the farm lane for the cars and tractors to run over to get the green off. Then the kids had to gather them up and crack them out so if there was any left, grandmom would make applesauce cookies. yum!

dd 09-23-2011 03:44 AM


Originally Posted by Charleen DiSante
I remember my cousins and I stomping on burlap bags to get the green (staining) husks off the walnuts OOOH, yes, I too remember the fudge...

Originally Posted by dd
Now you know why the ladies used to use them for hair color in the old days. I remember stained fingers as a kid. Guess that's why grandmom always had us kids do it.ha ha


Sorry

pollym44 09-23-2011 05:53 AM


Originally Posted by skydiver70
Just posted recipe for Black Walnut Chiffon Cake on Recipe link. Hope you enjoy it.

Thank you, just love to bake with new recipies. Blessings!!

MAK'58 09-23-2011 06:40 AM

and banana nut bread and divinity, yum. Also had some type of fungus on one of my fingers as a child. My granddad said to scrape/pulverize a green hull and spread it on the area & bandage it. Continue til wound was gone. Well it took only a few days and it was cleared. Some think that the hull has iodine in it. Don't know the pharmacology of a walnut hull, but "whatever" it worked. He also said that this was good for warts.Sad that I haven't seen any in Houston area or central Texas. The ones I have bought in stores always seem rancid.

Pieceful Quilter 09-25-2011 01:02 PM

Well you would think I would know, cause my grandparents had black walnut trees on their farm. Boy, I remember shelling about a ton of those things every year for Christmas baking. I sure don't remember how we got our hands clean though. Probably just let it go away slowly with dish washing and all! Makes me homesick for the old days...

sarahrachel 09-25-2011 03:01 PM

well baking soda and vinegar takes some of it off (and makes your hands soft) but you smell like vinegar for a while. I guess I'm just gonna have to let it wear off. Washing dishes here I come!:(

pawebdoctor 10-02-2011 10:22 AM

25 years ago, when I moved from New York City to Pennsylvania I gathered bags of black walnuts and wearing cloth garden gloves cleaned them all. When I had finished and took off the gloves... my hands were black! A friend called her farmer grandpa to ask how to remove the stain... and he just laughed. Took a couple of weeks to wear off. To top it off... I lined up the walnuts to dry out on my porch... and when I came out a few hours later there were only three left... the squirrels were thrilled.


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