Hello everyone and again, happy Friday!
I'm sure that you are going to make your way outside during the weekend. If you live in the Ozarks, you may literally stumble on one of those green golf ball sized things that fall out of the trees this time of the year. I got a phone call the other day that my grandmother stumbled on one and hurt her ankle. It was then that I began to wonder exactly what they were. Upon researching them, I came across a couple of options: Crab Apples or Black Walnuts. There are no apple trees around my grandma, so I am going to guess that the green ball is a black walnut.
As I further researched black walnuts, I found some interesting news on them: There's a shortage this year because of the drought that struck across the United States. The amount walnuts, which the Ozark residents refer to as black gold, and the impact of the drought will not be known until companies begin cracking the nuts.
So what can you do with black walnuts? Well, we can eat them and use them for crafts. Their shells are great for artistic purposes. What we are going to do is cook, because I have no shells to play with.
I decided to make black walnut fudge. I used a good fudge recipe from my grandma and added the walnuts in before letting it sit. Here's the recipe:
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WHAT YOU NEED
2 sticks of butter4.5 cups of sugar
1 cup of regular milk
25 regular marshmallows
12 oz of semi sweet chocolate chips
2 squares of bakers unsweetened chocolate
13oz of Hershey milk chocolate bars
1.5 tsp of vanilla
1 cup of chopped black walnuts
NOW WHAT
In a stove-safe pan, melt the butter and add sugar and milk…stir until warm. Add
marshmallows. Bring the mixture to a boil…constant stirring….once at boil shut
off fire. Add all of the chocolate. Stir until melted and add vanilla. Pour in
13x9x2 pan that is greased with butter and scatter the nuts on top…let cool
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