Sorry Sharon, that will teach me to read more carefully. However it had got me thinking so maybe it's time to do a web search for a good recipe.
Cheers, Roger http://lbarker.orcon.net.nz/index1.html on 11/8/2004 1:30 PM, Sharon at tala...@teleport.com wrote: Er, Roger, I wrote picking, not pickling. I don't have a recipe for pickling them.... Sorry! Sharon The recipe for the tincture is in Dr. Clark's book BTW. Sharon, would you consider posting your recipe for pickling walnuts? I've got several trees on my property and find the nuts very hard to get into. Pickling them sounds like a good idea :-) Cheers, Roger Rotorua, New Zealand http://lbarker.orcon.net.nz/index1.html on 11/8/2004 3:35 AM, Sharon at tala...@teleport.com wrote: Also it is hellaciously difficlult to get the hulls off of green picked nuts, and you will bruise the hulls doing it thus "damaging" them and they will then turn black. I have been picking walnuts all my life, I grew up on a tree farm. Brickey is right that balck walnut hulls stain really badly. If you want to dye with it it does not require a mordant. Use an Iron pot to boil it in and you will get a reasonably black dye.
