Butter pecan

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Butter pecan
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Butter pecan caramel ice cream
Place of origin United States
Main ingredients pecans, butter, and vanilla

Butter pecan is a flavor, prominent especially in the southern United States, in ice cream, cakes, and cookies. The flavor is an element of soul food, the cuisine of Black Americans. Poet Maya Angelou recalled that Black Americans could eat vanilla ice cream only on the 4th of July. Research by culinary historian Michael Twitty states that Edmund Albius, an enslaved Black man, improved the cultivation of the Mexican spice that flavored ice cream on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. [1] [2] [3]

Roasted pecans, butter, and vanilla flavor are used in butter pecan baked goods. Butter pecan ice cream is smooth vanilla ice cream with a slight buttery flavor, with pecans added. It is manufactured by many major ice cream brands. A variant of the recipe is butter almond, which replaces the pecans with almonds.

Butter pecan is a popular flavor of ice cream produced by many companies and is also one of the thirty-one flavors of Baskin Robbins. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Twitty, Michael (2014). "Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Ghabour, Dahlia (2021). "'Is butter pecan ice cream a 'Black thing'?' Louisville podcast explores how race impacts food". Courier Journal. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  3. ↑ Ecott, Tim (2005). Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid. Grove Press. p. 137. ISBN   9780802142016.
  4. ↑ Flavors | Baskin-Robbins


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