[trappa]

I found a plethora of woodnuts yesterday and want to collect them. I usually dry them. roast them and have them with salt but want to store some for the coming months. Anyone got a link or can give me the heads up as to what to do. Im thinking storing in salt when dried but not sure.
Anyone help? cheers

[badoosh]

Whats a woodnut?

[tiercel]

Hazel nuts?

TC

[essexjed]

tiercel, on Aug 8 2009, 11:31 AM, said:

Hazel nuts?

TC

no... these grow just under the ground, pigs love em, so do i lol....goggle it! sure they will be on there. good luck

[tiercel]

essexjed, on Aug 9 2009, 11:11 AM, said:

tiercel, on Aug 8 2009, 11:31 AM, said:

Hazel nuts?

TC

no... these grow just under the ground, pigs love em, so do i lol....goggle it! sure they will be on there. good luck

Nope I tried woodnut, groundnut earthnut No hit in wikiepedia or google. Any chance of a photo. The only thing I can think of is truffles.

And if you seen the price on truffles you would not be eating them.

AJ

[essexjed]

tiercel, on Aug 10 2009, 03:53 PM, said:

essexjed, on Aug 9 2009, 11:11 AM, said:

tiercel, on Aug 8 2009, 11:31 AM, said:

Hazel nuts?

TC

no... these grow just under the ground, pigs love em, so do i lol....goggle it! sure they will be on there. good luck

Nope I tried woodnut, groundnut earthnut No hit in wikiepedia or google. Any chance of a photo. The only thing I can think of is truffles.

And if you seen the price on truffles you would not be eating them.

AJ

i just googled pig nuts fella came up straight away...? good luck

[tiercel]

Ah I know what they are now. We have always known them as Ground nuts.

TC

[awen]

trappa, on Aug 8 2009, 11:16 AM, said:

I found a plethora of woodnuts yesterday and want to collect them. I usually dry them. roast them and have them with salt but want to store some for the coming months. Anyone got a link or can give me the heads up as to what to do. Im thinking storing in salt when dried but not sure.
Anyone help? cheers

you could always store them in a bucket of sand in a cool place i have done this with carrots and parsnips alot in the past [mimicing nature] pickling aswell but you will lose the delicate taste or freezing but i have never tried it so not 100%, hope this helps ;)

http://www.afamarket...rage-one-law-2/
this might help pal. writing by a chinese fella so writen a bit wierd. i think the chinese use them quite alot so looking along that line might be the best option.

This post has been edited by awen: 10 August 2009 - 09:29 PM

[JoeD]

I have walked past these loads of times and now I know I can eat them :-) Thanks to this thread I now have more free food.

JoeD

[Fat-Ferret]

Interesting, I have never heard of them, out for a dig tomorrow, The plant looks like elderberry from tiercels link

[JoeD]

Fat-Ferret, on Aug 20 2009, 12:19 AM, said:

Interesting, I have never heard of them, out for a dig tomorrow, The plant looks like elderberry from tiercels link

They are quite common in the woods near me and all along the canal, I always thought they where weeds, but I am now intrigued with them and will be out with my trowel next time I am near where I have seen them.

JoeD

[othickman]

OOooOO. Interesting...but how can you identify it from the list below, all of which look quite similar (just dug out a plant book - hadn't heard of groundnuts before):
Cow parsley, Ground Elder, Hemlock (ish), wild carrot, and hogweed (ish).
Now most of those I wouldn't be able to use any of it, and once dug up to check for the illusive pig nut a lot of the plants may die, plus Hemlock is poisonous although looks quite different...

Help please :)

Oh, and any recipes (simple :tongue2:)?

This post has been edited by othickman: 20 August 2009 - 12:48 PM