To Have Walnuts Fresh Throughout the Season

Ingredients

• To every pint of water
• 1 teaspoonful salt

Instructions

1. Place the walnuts in the salt and water for 24 hours at least;
2. then take them out, and rub them dry.
3. Old nuts may be freshened in this manner; or walnuts, when first picked, may be put into an earthen pan with salt sprinkled amongst them, and with damped hay placed on the top of them, and then covered down with a lid.
4. They must be well wiped before they are put on table.