# Home made Black Walnut syrup, yum!

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**Created:** [April 2, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-made-black-walnut-syrup-yum/939245 "2021-04-02T16:30:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
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This year in addition of tapping my maple trees, I tapped the huge black walnut in the yard too. Walnut syrup is not so common as maple syrup, as walnut trees put out less than 1/3 of the sap of mapes, and it still takes 40 parts sap to make 1 part syrup. Plus the walnut sap contains pectin, so it needs special filters, or a pectin enzyme in order to produce it.

But this year I figured, “what the heck” and decided to try it. I got some enzymes to add to the sap, and through diligence got about 5 gallons of walnut sap over the all to brief 3 week season this year (it got too warm too soon for a long sap run).

And now I have a bit over a pint of walnut syrup, a lovely medium dark amber color. It’s NOT like the flavor of maple syrup, that’s for sure (I got a bit under 2 gallons of THAT in this short harvest). The walnut syrup tastes NOTHING like walnuts, first of all. It’s very sweet but not cloying, very rich yet mellow, and has a caramel/butterscotchy taste, like yet still unlike both those related flavors. It’s quite uniquely its own flavor, and now I’m sad I only have only a pint of the stuff . . .

Thus far, tasting has been a straight small spoonful of the stuff, and some experimentation putting it on very premium vanilla ice cream. Next testing: French toast!

Anybody else tried walnut syrup?

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-made-black-walnut-syrup-yum/939245/2 "2021-04-02T16:48:20Z")

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No I have not but I now must try. Doubt I will find any fresh so I.am going to have to settle for some online brand. Anyone have any recommendations ?