Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: hayles62 on October 09, 2006, 18:37
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I just found a lovely Walnut tree, is there anything special I should do to store them for Christmas?
I was also wondering about pickled Walnuts, I remember them being horrible but that was many years ago when I was a child, what do you pickle them in?
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For pickled walnuts, you have to pick them around June, before the shells start to harden. They are in the green casing, you leave them that way. Prick or bash them about a bit. Soak in a brine solution for 7 days (500g salt to 4 litres water). Take them out and rinse them well. Leave them on a tray in the air for a few hours to blacken. Prepare vinegar, add spices and heat. Put walnuts in hot jars, and add hot spiced vinegar. Thats it really, but do wear gloves when handling, as they stain your hands horribly.
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Good question about the walnuts. I have a large tree which has lots of walnuts on it at the moment. Last year the squirrels didn't leave a single one.
I've just tried one and found it wasn't ripe even though the green fleshy part had blackened and fallen off. Do you need to do anything else to them or just store them for a while?
I'd like to get at least some of them stored away before the pesky little blighters nick the rest.
Any suggestions anybody?
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Spread walnuts out to dry them,if you prod that little brown biton the top of the nut is soft/wet usually when you first collect the,that bit needs to be dry or it goes mouldy,when dry store in bags,old onion bags are great and they will keep for ages.I don`t know if this is the official way to do it but have tried by trial and error especially the mouldy bit!
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Just been reading about Walnuts and it says a handfull a day is very benificial.
http://www.dietobio.com/aliments/en/walnuts.html
So gather your nuts everyone. :lol: