chestnuts

[zimmerstutzen]

next door kids gathered a bunch of chestnuts from the tree in their back yard. They did not know they were good to eat. I nuked a couple in the microwave and cut them open and let them try them. When Momma saw them eating the chestnuts she had a fit. Everybody knows they are poisonous. HUH? Lady they aren't roasting chestnuts on an open fire at Christmas to kill the reindeer. Ever heard of Chestnut stuffing?

Anyway, the kids brought me the stash, must be ten pounds of them.

 

[nhmoose]

1 type is edible the other the one with the sharp points on the hull are poisonous That was just in the backwoods home magazine. They even did a mailing notice about the mess up in the pictures in the article.

I would look them up so you don't get sick.

 

[Katahdin]

Check them out close,,,some are good to eat some are poisonous,,,, very little difference in their apperance.

 

[George]

Make certain they aren't buckeyes, the look is very similar.

I didn't know any chestnut trees survived the blight, they didn't in my neck of the woods.

Spence

 

[Grumpa]

There are some few native, nut bearing chestnut trees surviving in Butler County, PA.

The chestnut blight was a tremendous loss for the Eastern forest. There are efforts to restore the chestnut, but I don't know that there is much success.

Chestnut stuffing is the best part of Thanksgiving dinner. :thumbsup:

 

[Alden]

HORSE chestnuts are poisonous.

We have plenty'o orchard chestnut trees here in the apple orchard up the road. Man, we go through two dozen types of the best damn apples in a couple of months and get the fresh chestnuts off the nets under the trees daily before the four-legged or winged (yes, winged) competitors do.

Chestnut stuffing with breakfast link sausage bits baked in...

Yummy!

 

[Katahdin]

Easiest way to tell in look at the leaves,, big difference,,could save you some very bad times,,
Bad ones,,Horsechestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum,all the leaves come together in the middle,"Palmately Compound" leaves...
Good ones,,American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, leaves do not all come together ,Pinnately Compound.
If you go to "Google" type in the Tree and then select "Images" upper left it will show you the difference.
Referance: The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees Eastern Region

 

[Loyalist Dave]

DUDE! IF the kids have found one or more nut bearing chestnut trees, you may have a rare, adult grove of the trees. The chestnuts that most folks can buy are of a European variety...

BETTER yet, you may have a group of trees that are blight resistant. Scientists have been working for decades on developing a blight resistant strain of American chestnut, but it is possible that during the last century, Nature completed the task.

You might want to find out where the kids got the nuts!

LD

 

[Katahdin]

There is an American Chestnut Tree Associaton out of NH it think,,Have trees to plant,,their on line with a web sight!!!

 

[crockett]

NEVER KNEW some chestnuts were poisonous. Thanks.
On the other thread about "Pilgrim/Puritan food" Since the American Chestnut has mostly disappeared I never even think of them. Wonder if they had chestnuts at the first Thanksgiving?

 

[Alden]

Wonder if they had chestnuts at the first Thanksgiving?

Yes, and big soft salted pretezels with yellew mustard.

 

[Jim Vatt]

Sounds like the kids beat the deer to 'em, but did they beat the bugs? My 2 trees yielded a "whopper crop." So I thought... The tree rats started on them, so I figured I'd help myself to a few. Most of the ones the squirrels spared either had nuts shriveled up in the burr or were wormy. I did get a few good ones...and haven't died from eating them yet!!!!!

 

[Katahdin]

"I did get a few good ones...and haven't died from eating them yet"!!!!!
Might take awhile,like lead poisoning, when you eat it,,takes awhile,,,,,Check it out before anyone else follows your lead,, just saying!!! Some can eat Peanuts ,,no problem ,,some drop dead like they been hit with lightening,,,,

 

[sidelock]

There are still some in Lee Co. VA.(I have eaten some) trying to survive but they never seem to grow very big. Also, MT is trying to produce them. Seems the blight is not in the west.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Yes, and big soft salted pretezels with yellew mustard.

ALDEN! EVERYBODY KNOWS PILGRIM MUSTARD WAS THE BROWN KIND! :youcrazy:

LD

 

[Jim Vatt]

Before everyone out there panics over this topic, mIght I suggest you check this link:
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/whats_the_difference_between_horse_chestnuts_and_sweet_chestnuts

I'm NEITHER EATING nor SUGGESTING OTHERS SHOULD EAT "horse chestnuts."

 

[jamesthomas]

That's the ticket :thumbsup: ! Pictures will help every time!.

 

[Alden]

Yes, and big soft salted pretezels with yellew mustard.

ALDEN! EVERYBODY KNOWS PILGRIM MUSTARD WAS THE BROWN KIND! :youcrazy:

LD

The brown kind is yellow too. I know 'cause Dick, whom I'll be updating everyone on at the holidays, calls it Golden.

You all may recall he refuses to call it Gulden's like it's against his religion (and is probably becasue he thinks it's too Jewish to say properly). Waitresses never know what he's talking about and tell him they don't have any -- at the end of the meal I ask them if they have Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard and they always say yes.

LD, tell us about the Pilgrim's...

...chestnut encrusted crab cakes!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

You won't like it if I do....

they didn't use breadcrumbs for the filler in the crab cakes....


They used ground hominy...in other words....

GRITS! :rotf:

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LD

 

[zimmerstutzen]

White grits, yellow grits, or for some strange members of the board, brown grits?

I've had eastern shore crab soup, crab patties, crab cakes, those big crab balls the restaurants around DC make, crab dip, stuffed crab, fried soft shells, cream of crab soup, even crab seasoned potato chips. I like all things crab except pickin', I just can't imagine that chestnut and crab would taste good in any combination.

I like roast chestnuts, boiled chestnuts, chestnut stuffing, even chestnut flour focaccia. I had a mashed chestnut-cranberry spread for crustini or flatbread that was to die for.

I picked up the turkey this morning. Perhaps a chestnut stuffing with dried cranberries.