What Kind of Nut is This?

[hoghunter]

I have a tree that looks like a Pecan, but these nuts don't. Can someone please tell me what kind of nut this is?

Thanks!!!

 

[Nicodemus]

Those are hickory nuts.

 

[misterpink]

The critters around my place will leave those untouched until February and everything else is gone.

 

[hoghunter]

Thanks very much. I appreciate the quick reply. Guess I won't be eating theses. LOL

 

[Nicodemus]

They`re good to eat. I crack em in my vice.

 

[Longhorn 16]

The critters around my place will leave those untouched until February and everything else is gone.

My dogs eat them and really wonder how they don’t break their teeth.

 

[hoghunter]

I'll try them...I can see where I vice would be useful...these things are rock hard.

Maybe I can train my dog to crack them. LOL

 

[blood on the ground]

Hickory nuts...

 

[NCHillbilly]

Pecans are actually a species of hickory. Some hickory nuts are delicious, some are bitter.

 

[Miguel Cervantes]

Euell Gibbons made a living off of those things.
He also taught me my first edible wild plants course back in the early 70's.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Hickory milk was one of the staple foods of the southeastern Indian tribes.

 

[hoghunter]

I had no idea...very interesting. Thanks.

 

[treemanjohn]

Hickory nuts can be very sweet. The tree rats are smashing them at my home. Believe it or not deer love them

 

[ucfireman]

I didn't know deer ate them or you could get "hickory milk" from them. I do know they smell good and work well for flavor when grilling.

 

[NE GA Pappy]

Hickory nuts. The sqwerls love them. They are good to eat most of the time, but are as much trouble to pick out of the shells are black walnuts.

They also will scare the poopie outta you at 2am, when they start falling on the metal roof above your bedroom from the 60ft tall tree right outside of your house

 

[JackSprat]

You can use them to smoke BBQ with. just use a few because they are full of oil and other compounds and will produce a bitter taste if you use too many.

 

[NCHillbilly]

The traditional "courting cake" here in the mountains used to be a hickory nut cake. They are delicious, and a feller knew that if a girl was willing to put the work into cracking and digging out a bunch of hickory nuts to make a cake for him, that she was pretty seriously interested in him.

 

[rattlesnake1]

soak them in water and put them in the smoker on the coals .