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Title:How to Make them Goodies
Notice:Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
Moderator:FUTURE::DDESMAISONSec.com::winalski
Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

313.0. "Black walnuts - what to do?" by DONJON::EYRING () Mon Aug 11 1986 13:18

    I have some black walnuts in my fridge that I got for Christmas.
    What on earth do you do with black walnuts?  I can't find a single
    recipe that uses them.  They smell so strongly, I'm afraid to
    substitute them for English walnuts in just any old cake recipe.
    
    Any ideas out there?
    
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313.2Carrot Cake?PLANET::STANZMon Aug 11 1986 17:112
    Seems to me that a Carrot Cake recipe waaayyy back used them. Try
    scrolling back to about Note 85 or so.
313.3Further BackPLANET::STANZMon Aug 11 1986 17:132
    I was wrong- its Note 4.
    
313.5TRY THIS RECIPEFSTVAX::OVIATTSteve OviattThu Aug 14 1986 23:2931
	I printed this out and brought it home for Nancy to see if she had
something in her cookbook files for you to use.  She did, and here it is:

			CHOCOLATE PIXIES

	Sift together  2 cups of Flour
		       2 tsp. of Baking Powder
		       1/2 tsp. of Salt

	Melt together  1/4 cup of Butter
		       4 squares of Chocolate

	Let it cool and add
			2 cups of Sugar
			4 eggs, one at a time
	BEAT this mixture for 1 minute and THEN add
			1/2 cup of Black Walnuts
			the stuff you sifted together earlier
	MIX well.

	Chill it all for 5 minutes.

	Shape it into balls and roll the balls in Powdered Sugar.

	Bake them for 18-20 minutes on greased cookie sheets in an oven
	at 300 degrees.  

	This makes 5 dozen.

	Nancy says she's DYING to make this recipe with BLACK Walnuts.  To 
	say the least, she's envious.
313.7Black Walnut Source & CookbookOWL::FINLEYWed Aug 27 1986 16:0926
    A friend of mine (who knows I love to try new & different recipes)
    happened to send me part of an article about black walnuts from the
    October 1986 issue of Early_American_Life.  The article lists The
    Missouri Dandy Pantry as "...an excellent source of black walnut meats
    by mail for those who have neither a tree in their back yard nor
    the patience to dry, crack, and pick the nuts...".  A catalog is
    available by writing The Missouri Dandy Pantry, 212 Hammons Drive East,
    Stockton, Missouri  65785.
    
    The article includes recipes for Black Walnut Chocolate Applesauce Cake,
    Black Walnut Gingerbread, Iowa Black Walnut Ice Cream, Black Walnut
    Carrot Cake, My Favorite Black Walnut Cake, Creamy Coffee Icing
    (uses black walnut flavoring), Chocolate Walnut Fudge & Black Walnut
    Pie.  If anyone would like a copy of the recipes just send me your
    address...
                      
    Some of these recipes are from a cookbook titled Walnut_Winners
    which is "...a collection of award-winning recipes from twenty-five
    years of the West Virginia black Walnut Festival baking competition.
    Copies may be obtained from The West Virginia Black Walnut Festival,
    P.O. Box 77, Spencer, WV 25276.  Price is $5 per copy, plus 50 cents
    mailing cost...".
    
    Hope this helps .....
    
    Wendy