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    Nuts and Starches

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    I harvest a number of different nuts and starches. Mostly nuts, or roots and tubers.

    foraged butternuts in their green husk on a tray

    Butternuts, also known as white walnuts are one of a few types I like. 

    Quick Links

    Wild Nuts

    Each different type of wild nut is different, you'll find individual tutorials for processing specific types below.

    • The Forager's Guide to Black Walnuts
    • The Forager's Guide to Shagbark Hickory Nuts 
    • Butternuts / White Walnuts 
    • How to Make Acorn Flour 

    Wild Rice

    If you think you know wild rice, even if you're from the Midwest, please read my Guide to Wild Rice (Purchasing and Cooking) 

    a pile of black paddy wild rice next to parched wild rice

    Do you know the differences between these two types of wild rice? Both have unique flavors and cooking times.

    Roots and tubers

    Links to recipes and categories on a few different wild roots.

    • Burdock 
    • Wild Parsnip 
    • Lotus Root 
    • Wapato

    Narrow your search:

    • Acorns
    • Black Walnuts
    • Burdock
    • Chestnuts
    • Hickory Nuts
    • Wild Rice
    • Mezze Maniche Pasta with Walnut Sauce
    • Bonet Piemontese: Italian Chocolate Amaretti Custard
    • Foraging Oyster Plant or Yellow Salsify (Tragopogon dubius)
    • How To Make Chestnut Flour, With Recipes
    • Homemade Chestnut Flour Pasta
    • Chestnut Polenta (Polenta di Castagne con Ricotta)
    • Necci: Tuscan Chestnut Flour Pancakes / Crepes
    • Homemade Chestnut Flour Gnocchi
    • Rich and Chewy Black Walnut Cookies (with Oatmeal Flour)
    • Homemade Black Walnut Milk (Dairy Free)
    • Sunchoke Puree
    • French Cream of Chestnut Soup (Potage aux Marrons)
    • Acorn Pancakes with Pine Nuts
    • Foraging and Cooking Wapato, The Katniss Plant
    • Linden Chocolate
    • Dock Seed Flour
    • Maple Black Walnut Ice Cream
    • Whole Roasted Celeriac Steak Baked in a Crust
    • Hickory Smoked Ice Cream
    • Persimmon-Pudding Cake with Dried Fruit
    • Frozen Hickory Nut Oil and Maple Silk
    • Duck Soup with Wapato, Morels and Wild Rice
    • Sam Thayer's Bitternut Hickory Nut Oil
    • Shagbark Hickory Syrup
    • Hickory Nut Tea
    • Wild Rice Cooked in Hickory Nut Milk
    • Shagbark Hickory Nuts
    • Warm Mushroom Wild Rice Salad
    • Green Black Walnut Jam / Preserves
    • Lampascioni: Southern Italy's Edible Hyacinth Bulbs
    • Cooking with Green Walnuts
    • French Walnut Wine or Vin de Noix
    • Georgian Walnut Spread / Phkali
    • Wild Rice Flour Cornbread
    • Korean Acorn Jelly with Chrysanthemum Leaf Salad (Dotorimuk)
    • Traditional Hickory Nut Milk (Kanuchi)
    • Maple and Acorn Flour Torte
    • Hollyhock Sarmasi with Mushroom-Walnut Filling
    • The Best Black Walnut Cracker
    • Green Kentucky Coffee Beans

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