Autumn flavor of the month series
The Orchard Series
Five flavors from the last weeks of the harvest.
Every September our kitchen smells like a cider mill. Apples, pears, pecans and the last muscadines come in from farms an hour or two inland, and for three months the wall turns over to the fruit and nuts of the Southern autumn.
The Orchard Series is five flavors built around that harvest: one donut, one pie, one cheese course, one quiet pear and a sorbet made from wild persimmons that only ripen after the first cold night. Each is churned in small batches, and each one leaves the wall on November 30.
This series ends in 39 days, on November 30. The Hearth Series drops December 1.
The five flavors
Apple Cider Donut
ice cream
Hunks of cinnamon-sugar cider donut, a cider caramel ribbon and brown butter ice cream.
Contains milk, eggs, wheat. Ships as a pint while the series runs.
Roasted Pear & Ginger (gf)
ice cream
Pears roasted soft in their skins, fresh ginger and a little black pepper. Warm without any heat.
Contains milk. Ships as a pint while the series runs.
Muscadine & Goat Cheese (gf)
ice cream
Tangy local goat cheese ice cream with a jam of the last muscadines of the year.
Contains milk. Ships as a pint while the series runs.
Sorghum Pecan Pie
ice cream
Sorghum syrup instead of corn syrup, chunks of pecan pie and its crust, folded in still warm.
Contains milk, eggs, wheat, tree nuts. Ships as a pint while the series runs.
Persimmon & Clove Sorbet (v) (gf)
sorbet
Wild persimmons picked soft, a single clove and a squeeze of orange. Orange, honeyed and gone by December.
None of the nine major allergens in the recipe. Ships as a pint while the series runs.