Reply #10: Try some chopped up black walnuts in chocolate fudge...

[Hubert Flottz]

Use the fudge recipe on the Hershey's Cocoa box and add the chopped black or English walnuts as you whip in the butter in the thickening process. My Mom used to mix black walnut pieces into the chocolate fudge and then top each square with half an English walnut. Mom made cakes candy and cookies with black walnuts and they were ALL very good.

Black walnut trees grow wild around here, so I've always had black walnuts whenever I had the energy to gather, hull, dry and crack them. The prolonged exposure to the black goo or tar(juglone)which the green hulls contain will blister your skin and it will stain your skin. Takes the stain a long time to wear off and I know of nothing that will remove the stain from the skin but time. ALWAYS use protective gloves when you hull black walnuts.


The native Americans in this area made flat stones with half round holes in them to use for cracking black walnuts. The walnuts were placed in the holes that were chipped out to fit the walnut shells and then they cracked them with other stones. I have seen several of these nut cracking stones that folks around here have found over the years. A couple of the ones I've seen were found near where the Shawnee made salt from several salt springs in the area.(Malden WV) The very salt springs where Mary Ingles once helped make salt as a captive of the Shawnee, as she and her children were being taken west by a Shawnee raiding party, to the main Shawnee town of Chalahgawtha(present day Chillicothe Ohio)on the Scioto river.