Each fall, in private gardens and uncultivated meadows scattered across the central region from Missouri to Virginia, volunteers stake out a spot beneath their favorite tree and wait for the Black Walnut to drop. The Black Walnut has never been tamed. The harvest comes not from orchards, but from wild nuts gathered by hand. By the time the harvest is complete, and the nutmeat is extracted, the result is a hardy, rich, and robust-flavored nut that has an intense flavor with dark tones. Rich, robustly flavored, bold, indulgent, and especially exciting are just a few of the terms consumers use to describe their experiences when biting into a food product enhanced by Black Walnuts.

The Real Scoop

Although popular from coast to coast, in some regions of the Country Black Walnut Ice Cream is a top seller, even rivaling vanilla. Mid-Westerners who grew up on this unique taste sensation have now migrated into every state across the US and quickly snatch up any opportunity to relive those nostalgic Black Walnut memories. Likewise new comers are intrigued by it's exotically-intense flavor as they look for new tastes to engage their culinary interests.

Black Walnut Ice Cream has been around for some time now and like all great flavors the line extensions are just aching to follow. Thus, today's feature flavor; Caramelized Black Walnut. A rich dark cooked caramel background enhanced with a burnt sugar note then finished off with candy glazed Black Walnuts. Created in Europe by a renowned chef and now available for industrial production here in the US, order a sample and see if a second Black Walnut flavor is right for your 2005 lineup or if perhaps it may be time to add the selling power of American Black Walnuts to your flavor list. If you would just like to see how Black Walnuts differ from it's English Walnut cousin and experience for yourself why the Black Walnut's intense flavor can lend itself to lower use levels and a truffle-like experience in Ice Cream, click for a free sample nut case here.

Watch for future emails as Hammons explores blending Black Walnuts with fruits and baked goods in premium ice cream to bring "white table cloth" to the Ice Cream industry.

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