"They didn't call Andrew Jackson "Old Hickory" for nothing. The man apparently loved hickory nuts. If you've never had one yourself, the nuts are described as being buttery and slightly sweet, One of his favorite meals involving hickory nuts was old hickory nut soup. The recipe is stunningly simple - calling for 1 gallon of cracked and crushed hickory nuts steeped in 1 quart of hot water, strained and served with 4 tablespoons of sugar stirred in."
"Now, even if you've never had hickory nut soup before, you might notice there are a few ingredients missing before you'd call this a proper soup. It's just nuts, sugar, and water - oddly similar the plant-based milk alternatives of today, and you're not wrong. The end result is basically a sweetened nut milk. The process also produces far less liquid than you might expect because each hickory nut contains very little nut meat."
Food trends differ widely by geography and historical period, so typical meals vary across places and eras. U.S. presidents historically ate uncommon dishes such as beef tongue in aspic and hickory-nut-based foods. Old Hickory nut soup calls for a gallon of cracked and crushed hickory nuts steeped in a quart of hot water, strained, and sweetened with four tablespoons of sugar. The result functions like a sweetened nut milk and yields little liquid because hickory nuts contain little meat. Hickory nuts are not commercially farmed, yield only about 20 to 25 percent shelled meat, require hand harvesting and specialized cracking, and are therefore rare and costly.
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