On Monday, August 29, 2011 4:59:12 PM UTC-5, Chemo the Clown wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2:49*pm, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:45:32 -0800, Mark Thorson >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I just noticed the black walnuts have started falling.
> > >I'm wondering if I should bother harvesting and shelling
> > >any. *It's been decades since I did, and I remember them
> > >being difficult to crack (hard, thick, nearly spherical
> > >shell) and pick the meat from. *Lots of work for a little
> > >mound of black walnut pieces. *As I recall, they have a
> > >sharper, more concentrated flavor than regular walnuts.
> >
> > >Somebody said you can dehusk them by driving a car back
> > >and forth over them. *I didn't have a car back then,
> > >but I do now.
> >
> > What I heard was that you drove over a sheet of plywood with the
> > walnuts underneath. *The flavor is very good. *I have never attempted
> > to harvest any myself, I've just been gifted some.
> > I want to hear what you decide and your adventures.
> > Janet US
>
> Does driving over them improve the flavor? :-) We had several black
> walnut trees in our yard when I was a kid. Gawd, there were tons of
> walnuts that we gathered. My old man would just crack them with a
> hammer.

When I was 3 and 4 years old I loved them, and cracked them with rocks on a concrete slab. I no longer enjoy their taste. What I wish I had were hickory nuts, but the squirrels get pretty much every one.

--Bryan