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Last Fall my grandaughter and I picked up a big poke of hicker nuts up on the creek. We cracked a few and picked out the meat so she could understand why the squirrels liked them so much. It's hard work for very little reward but they are sooooooo good. I wound up with a sandwich bag to bring home and have been sneaking into the freezer ever since to spice up some ice cream or what ever. My wife made brownies the other day and went to the freezer to find no pecans. Not knowing where the mystery nuts came from she used the last in the brownies. The result are the absolute best brownies known to man. Now I have to find a source that doesn't involve me and a hammer. Anybody know where to buy them?

I love them too!

I have only ever seen them shelled and available in bulk once. It was in southeast Alabama on highway 82 between Eufaula and Midway. Roadside fruit shack on the southside of the road, they had their house right behind it.

I ended up buying a ton of mayhaw berries (if you haven't had any you are missing out), a bucket of hick nuts, and a big paw paw fruit (which was eaten before we even got out of the parking lot because it was so good).

I ended up making fruit pies with the mayhaw berries and hick nuts. They were amazing.

Hickory Nuts are $24.00 per pound plus shipping charges (minimum order 1 lb).
Orders can be shipped anywhere in the United States

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LJV wrote:http://www.rayshickorynuts.com/contact.html

I saw that and even though I understand why they are that expensive(shell some and you will know too), I am not willing to pay $24 lb. for any nut. Ralph Nader included.

bloke wrote:They taste OK, but (to me) no better than other nuts which actually require fewer calories to open than is offered by the meat found within.

Is this the part of the thread where someone claims you haven't tried "real" Hicker nuts???

djwesp wrote:I love them too!

The best I ever had were picked up in a creek bottom in the upper Buffalo River basin in North central Arkansas. I'd pay $24 a lb for those. Closest I can find are 80 miles due North of djwesp in the village of Licking, Mo. I'm going to try some of those. BTW I grew up in South Arkansas where the tree is pronounced "Hick'ry" and the fruit is all one word "hickernut". Don't know why they did it that way, but it sounds right in my ear. I'll probably use them to bake some brownies and send them out as special gifts for good friends.

Ewell Gibbons used to say that Grape-nuts naturally sweet taste reminded him of wild hickroy nuts....

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ken k wrote:Ewell Gibbons used to say that Grape-nuts naturally sweet taste reminded him of wild hickroy nuts....

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Ewell Gibbons dined on stick and twigs. I think I read that he died of stomach cancer!

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Got the super expensive bag of nuts in the mail from the Ozarks and opened with high expectations. I was discouraged with the taste of the nuts right out of the bag when comparing them with the ones I had cracked and eaten fresh from the tree, so I didn't do anything with them until last night. I had bought a package of mix before they came to make some more hickernut brownies and when I ran into it on the shelf decided I might as well make them, although my hopes were not very high. This all changed as they began to bake. That hickernut smell enveloped the whole house. My wife, who was upstairs in her office with the door closed working on her computer, came to the top of the stairs to ask me what I was cooking that smelled so good. My oh my! These were even better than the last batch. I may serve hickernut brownies at my wake. If you are the least bit curious
I'll give you the address of the little shop in Southern Missouri where you can get them. They are pricey, but quality knows no limit.

tbn.al wrote:... They are pricey, but quality knows no limit.

Good is rarely cheap (when it is, stock up!).