To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>, breen@fedcoseeds.com
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ice Cream fruits
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 16:36:24 -0700
JIm Claypool once told me of sending five gallons of persimmon pulp to a local ice cream plant for a test batch of persimmon ice cream. When they put it out for taste testing, they had a line clear around the block waiting to get in, and they were asking Jim for 100 gallons of pulp.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On May 6, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Heron Breen wrote:
Someday, I want to eat persimmon and
paw paw ice creams. If I can get fruit sent to me I will, but the Meader persimmon
trees I am propagating are a ways from fruiting.