Walnut Glut - does anyone know what can be done with them?

[Nightynight]

Ive got several laundry baskets full of walnuts. Too many for walnut cakes. Does anyone know a way of preserving them?
I am thinking along the lines of stuff in jars, that I could give for Xmas pressies, suitably tarted up of course.
Are walnuts in syrup nice, and does anyone have a recipe? Or anything savoury? All help gratefully received!

Is it a lifelong stash of picking them off Walnut Whips??

No, bog off, I'm not helping you - my walnut tree is always decimated by squirrels! I've had 2 trees at 2 houses over 10 years and have never got a single walnut from them!!

Have got a recipe for walnut tart, which uses lots. Walnuts, in fudge type stuff in a pastry case. Lovely, but v.v.sweet-- and of course, not what you asked for.

go wild

Too late for this year, but pickled walnuts are good. You have to gather them in July though, when they are still green. Plenty of recipes on google.

Fantastic.
I'm jealous as hell.Tell me about your walnut tree/trees.
The Georgians do a fantastic blitzed walnut sauce which they serve with chicken.It's divine.
Ate a lot of Georgian food (it's all divine) when we lived in Russia.

I would also experiment with a nut paste for bread/toast.The Turks (I'm in Turkey now) do a fab hazelnut one.

ooh 3princesses, I dont think I could resist walnuts in fudge though! please do post it!

our walnut tree is amazingly prolific. It is not a good idea to stand under it when the wind is blowing in autumn. We dont have grey squirrels, only gorgeous dark red ones, and they seem to stick to the forest - never seen one in the garden, sadly!

thanks for the link twiglett - Im checking it out.

what do you eat pickled walnuts with?

Bah!

moondog, is it this?

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Satsivi (Chicken with Walnut Sauce)

1 medium chicken
300 grams of walnuts, shelled
3 tablespoons of fresh cilantro
5 onions, finely chopped
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of clove
1 tablespoon of vinegar
1 teaspoon of marigold
1 teaspoon of fenugreek
1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
Ground red hot pepper to taste
Salt

Boil the chicken until half ready. Take it out of the pot and put it in the oven. Bake it until it is brown. Stew finely chopped onions in the fat taken off the chicken broth. Add the broth to the onions gradually, stirring them frequently to avoid burning.

Mince shelled walnuts together with garlic. Add all the spices (except fenugreek), salt and pepper to the walnut mixture. Pour the chicken broth (6 cups) into it.

When the onions are well stewed, add the walnut mixture to them and simmer for 15 minutes. Crush fresh cilantro in the mortar together with salt, squeeze the juice (out of it), and add it together with fenugreek to the walnut mixture. Simmer it for 5 minutes. Cut the fried chicken into pieces and put it into the hot walnut sauce.

soupdragon - can only suggest, move to France!

Ham, cheese, anything with salad. Used to be traditional at Christmas.

I'm going to post you a squirrel or 2 I find it absolutely incredible that they manage to completely denude my tree (s) of walnuts, no matter how many the tree produces. I've given up hoping and just enjoy the tree (the leaves, freshly crushed, smell amazing!)

I find it gives excellent shade in summer too - no need to buy a pagoda thingy

maybe you had better do pickled walnuts, and beat the squirrels by denuding the tree before they are ripe??

Have just dug it out and discovered it only uses 50g walnuts, not 3 laundry baskets as previously thought...

Forgot it also contained digestive biscuits, so maybe you could use less of them and more walnuts?

225g digestive biscuits ( broken onto small pieces)
100g butter
125g light brown sugar
1 egg
50g chopped walnuts
few drops vanilla essence

grease 20cm flan tin.
Break biscuits into large bowl. In a pan melt butter, add sugar and egg and mix til sugar dissolved. stir over heat until mixture has bubbled for one minute. add nuts, vanilla essence and biscuits and mix well. Press into greased tin and leave to set.

Butter-fudge icing.

50g butter
100g icing sugar
1 tablespoon milk
few drops vanilla essence
3 laundry baskets walnuts to decorate

Whisk all ingredients together. Turn out the cake, cover with the butter-fudge icing and decorate.

Best served chilled (with some walnut vodka?)

Or just beat the squirrels...

You can add walnuts to chocolate brownies, probably add them to chocolate Tiffin... all sorts of things.

Don't you think pickled walnuts look like teeny weeny shrunken brains?

martha - I was trying to ignore the shrunken brains aspect!

thank you for the recipes - they both sound irresistable. Think the family is going to have this menu when I next see them:

appertif: walnut vodka with roasted walnut nibbles.
Satsivi, with walnut salad
Walnut cake with butterfudge icing
Cheese with walnuts
and probably walnut coffee too.

Spray them gold and silver and use florists wire to make hanging loops.

For the Christmas tree obviously.

That's it nightynight!
Could be tweaked a bit I'm sure (where do you get marigold from???)

Also,frisee,Roquefort and walnuts.

Endive,Roquefort and walnuts.

Make your own muesli and throw them in.

I could eat 'em every day of the year.

I,ve never seen them Marthamoo. Wouldn't dream of doing it myself. Life's too short to pickle a walnut. Agree the tree is lovely. The sodding squirrels destroy the grass at this time of year though, burying 'em.