The shell shrapnel was another story. Shell and nut look very similar. Although I carefully sorted the nut meats three or four times, I doubted they were shell-free.

After gathering, hickory nut meat can be used in cooking, baking and on salads or simply eaten hand to mouth.

Hickory nutmeats are devilishly difficult to separate from the thick shells that encase the meats in swirling chambers of bone-hard material.

The only problem, and the reason they aren’t commercially harvested, is how difficult it is to get the meat out of the nut shell. Shagbark hickory nuts drop from the tree as a green orb the size ...

After he shelled the nuts, she would carefully pry out the nut meats — a chore that could last through the winter months if the harvest was plentiful.

Most varieties of hickory nuts are tasty, but the best ones take skill and patience to harvest because of their rock-hard shells.

Ingredients:3 eggs1 cup light corn syrup3/4 cup brown sugar2 tablespoons butter melted1 teaspoon vanilla extract1/8 teaspoon salt1 cup hickory nuts1 cup chocolate chips1 unbaked pie shell 9 inches ...

Second, hickory nuts are about 70 percent shell and only 30 percent nut. And third, the nut and shell are so intricately entwined it’s nearly impossible to get much meat out.

And with hickory nuts, which aren’t readily available in most stores, you could make a little money selling them: on eBay, a pound of shelled hickory nuts was offered for as much as $29.99.

You take and put three-fourths cup of hickory nut goodies on an uncooked nine inch pie shell and pour your mixings on the hickory nuts. Bake about an hour, more or less, in a moderate hot oven.

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The ground was littered with pieces of hickory nut husks, parts of acorns and black walnut shells devoid of their savory treatures. This outing already was a win, and I hadn't been in the woods 15 ...