Where To Buy Butternuts

Started by Hawaii596, 10-01-2014 -- 09:52:55

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Hawaii596

10-01-2014 -- 09:52:55
If any of you are analytical as I am, you'll do a google search.  There really is such a thing as butternuts (AKA "White Walnuts - but more correctly Butternuts).  I grew up in the mountains of Vermont and had a Butternut tree in my backyard.  I didn't know how rare it was, or I might have never moved away (not really).  Apparently, much of the Butternut tree population was wiped out decades ago by one of those weird tree fungi or something like that.  They are not generally available commercially.  I bought some a couple of years ago on ebay.  But can't find any on ebay presently.  Is anyone familiar with Butternuts, or know someone who mail orders them.  They have an awesome flavor.  Kind of like a Walnut, but with a rich buttery flavor (thus, "butternut").  Way off topic.  Just wondering.
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
from lecture to the Institute of Civil Engineers, 3 May 1883

USMCPMEL

#1
10-01-2014 -- 11:02:22
You're a butternut... :mrgreen:

metrologygeek

#6
10-01-2014 -- 11:53:02
All right! I love it when the foodies involuntarily identify themselves.

USMCPMEL

#7
10-01-2014 -- 15:13:44
NOW>> go buy you some nuts.... :evil:

Hawaii596

#8
10-02-2014 -- 09:24:00
I am a foodie, no doubt.  I have a list of the world's 6 best honeys (the kind that bees make, to be clear).  I've had a couple of them, including high grade Manuka Honey from the Tea Trees of New Zealand.  And I slum it when it comes to coffees, just the cheap Jamaican Blue Mountain (occasionally), not the kind "picked" be lemurs.  And of course, 6 year aged Cabot Cheddar, and Vermont Fancy Grade Maple Syrup, etc.

I checked the various links on the Butternuts.  No available shelled nuts.  They are a HUGE pain to shell.  I bought some unshelled a couple of years ago and it was not a pretty sight trying to shell them.  I wish I appreciated that butternut tree in our yard growing up in Vermont.
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
from lecture to the Institute of Civil Engineers, 3 May 1883

griff61

#9
10-02-2014 -- 10:30:41
Quote from: Hawaii596 on 10-02-2014 -- 09:24:00
I wish I appreciated that butternut tree in our yard growing up in Vermont.
Maybe it's time for a trip back to your roots? (pun intended)
Sarcasm - Just one more service I offer

metrologygeek

#10
10-03-2014 -- 08:01:03 Last Edit: 10-03-2014 -- 14:13:13 by metrologygeek
I'm going to be in New Orleans next month for the ASTM meetings and the weekend before the meetings start there is going to be a GUMBO FEST in NOLA. I'm looking forward to getting there a day or two early.
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions