And I have some real hope after finally finding this critical tip from the Mother Jones website: ‘Hickory nuts must be completely dried out before you crack them open. Give them several weeks in ...

Both humans and wildlife are busy foraging this first month of autumn for a tough nut to crack — Wisconsin’s flavorful hickory nut. Champions of this oft-overlooked edible know just ...

Hickory nut kernels are so difficult to extract in large pieces. Learn how to eat hickory nuts and how to shell hickory nuts in a way that allows easy nut meat extraction. One of my family’s ...

“The hut was a long ways from the woods and pasture.” Hickory nut gathering and cracking went by the wayside when he married Sue, but upon nearing retirement a few years back he returned to ...

Hickory nuts fell first. Next were the black walnuts ... seasonable for the cold holidays as we did their taste. You could crack them perfectly well by just squeezing two of them together in ...

Inside is a richly flavored, delectable nutmeat — no wonder, since hickory is closely related to pecan. Although a hard nut to crack, hickory nuts are relished by both humans and animals ...

The challenging part of hickory-harvesting is that it takes time, patience and nut-cracking skill to get the small bits of nut meat out of each hickory. None of those are strong suits of most 21 ...

Hickory nuts fell first. Next were the black walnuts ... seasonable for the cold holidays as we did their taste. You could crack them perfectly well by just squeezing two of them together in ...

Inside is a richly flavored, delectable nutmeat — no wonder, since hickory is closely related to pecan. Although a hard nut to crack, hickory nuts are relished by both humans and animals ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ACORNS CRUNCHING) SIMON: Hundreds of acorns cracking and crunching under ... of walnuts and hickory nuts and things like that. Other people just have taken a couple of shots of ...