The sweet taste of Pecans

[RECESS]

We have three medium sized producing trees on our property. I still have some pecans left from last year that we keep in sealable large mason jars. Today was the first day I went out and collected the first fallen pecans of the year and they are sooo sweat. Ivy is already planning some bread and pies.

I have about ten pounds of pecans left from last year and I was thinking of shelling them and covering in honey and roasting them in the oven. Anyone ever honey roast nuts before? Any tips?

 

[RECESS]

I have been searching for recipes. It is amazing how many Honey Roasting recipes do not include honey. Strange. I think this is the one I am going to give a go just based on ease and ingredients.


HONEY ROASTED MIXED NUTS
1/2 c. honey
2 tbsp. butter
4 c. mixed nuts
Combine honey, butter, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour mixture over nuts. Mix until all nuts are coated. Spread on foil-lined cookie sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until nuts are glazed or lightly browned. Cool 20-30 minutes.

 

[r. gallagher]

Fellow educator here in Texas. I have 50 pecan trees on my property and last year was the first harvest in 4 years. We had so many pecans we could not give them all away. This year we are fruitless. The drought hurt us in the past so I am hoping this is just the normal off year cycle pecans tend to have.

 

[MoonSailer]

Pecans too expensive!!!!! I planted two trees where I used to live and we moved before they produced many nuts. The few they produced were eaten by squirrels!!!! English walnuts are a poor second to pecans. When I was making some trail mix I had to use walnuts and almonds as wal-mart had no pecans. So my trail mix ended up being 1 pound of walnuts, one pound of almonds,one pound of raisins and one pound of M and Ms with peanuts. This was about 1 gallon. Pretty good. No salted nuts.

 

[cbac]

I've one old pecan tree on our business property. It's typically drops a couple hundred from mid october to mid November.
We had a front blow in early this morning and I picked up two lbs. which were added to our other bags and we've about five lbs.
There's a busy little squirrel out there so we leave a couple for him to bury, forget about and sprout out little trees in the spring. We transplant the sprouts and hope they flourish but we haven't had a lot of luck with that. This coming spring I think I'll put the sprouts in buckets and see if they can get established.
After shelling and culling we'll net enough for a couple pecan pies which is fine for us.
Sorry for rambling, I worked up a sweat trying to get the pecans before the cars started coming to crush them.