Butternuts

[Stone Knife]

Found a slew of butternuts, anyone have any experience in preparing them to eat?

[ALW]

Crack them open and eat them!  Just like a walnut.  They are good when used in cookies to replace walnuts.  I think they have a little milder flavor.

Aaron

[Bill Turner]

Live and learn. Exactly what is a butternut? What do they look like and where do they grow?Info would be appreciated.

[ALW]

Butternuts are kind of like walnuts.  I've heard people call them white walnuts.  They have a very similar shell to a black walnut, but they are more egg shaped than round.  I think they are a little more mild tasting than a black walnut.  There's a big one growing in my parents yard and I couldn't tell you how many thousands of pounds of nuts I had to rake up and wheel out of the yard as I was growing up!

Aaron

[Bill Turner]

Thanks for the info. I grew up in VA and have never seen or heard of a butternut. Never to old to learn I guess.

[bbassi]

I think they are also called English Walnuts, but I would have to see the tree to be sure.

[1Cycopath]

No, definitely not English walnuts. Butternuts are primarily found in Northeastern US. They have the mildest and sweetest meat of any of the walnuts. If you can find these growing wild in your hunting area set up your stand close-by!! Especially squirrel hunters. When I was very young I remember gathering them with my grandfather and storing them in the woodshed. Then later in the dead of winter we would sneak down to the basement beside the furnace, crack them open with a hammer and snack on them.