In late summer and early fall the peaches are large, sweet, ripe and ready for picking. Somehow Mother Nature planned them to ripen just in time to get them picked and sent to the processor so they would be ready in time for the Black Walnuts so we could put them together for this month's flavor of the month. Just about the time the peaches are properly preserved the Black Walnuts are starting to fall from the trees and hundreds of volunteers are anxiously waiting to pick them up by hand and bag them ready for Hammons Products Company. Once the Exotic Black Walnuts are in Hammons capable hands then the real work begins.

After the green hulls are removed the extremely hard shells are broken revealing the luscious nut meats. This is no small feat as the Black Walnut is able to withstand up to 500 lbs. per square inch of pressure before they finally break. Once the shells have been successfully broken then Hammon's proprietary process, developed and perfected over the past 58 years, removes the nut meats in a way that retains the maximum possible amount of total nut meats. The nut meats are then electronically sorted and shell pieces removed before eagle eyed employees give them one last look over to make sure they are up to Hammons high standards of quality control. Only 7% of the total weight is nut meat when the process is complete .

For this Month's flavor, the nuts are then further processed adding a crunchy candy praline shell around each nut. This not only makes the nuts crunchier and sweeter but also helps lower the cost, since sugar is much less costly than the nut meats.

The Real Scoop

If that's not already making your mouth water we then took premium ice cream flavored with those ripe peaches we spoke of earlier and a natural ripe peach flavor and generously distributed our praline black walnuts throughout. Honestly, you have just got to try this one out for yourself. Order a free sample today, we promise your sample to arrive within 48 hours as long as you order before the weekend. When the harvest is finished pull up a bale of hay and dish up a large bowl of Black Walnut Peach Praline to cool yourself off. The perfect finish for a long hot day of hard work. We think your customers will agree.

Sure, at Hammons Products Company we perfected the process of getting the Black Walnuts out of the shell, but you really need to thank Mother Nature for the exotically intense flavor. No, we can't take any credit for the peach, however we admit that putting them with our Black Walnuts in this month's ice cream flavor of the month was our idea.

Sincerely,