The secret to making Farmer Bill's Ice Cream is...
...Our day starts very early at 5.30am when we crack over 12 trays of free range eggs. The egg yolks are then mixed with fresh milk and cream from Marybelle Dairy in a very, very large stainless steel saucepan called a pasteuriser. To this we add golden caster sugar and a handful of other ingredients to make a custard. This mixture is heated up to a high temperature to zap any bacteria and then cooled rapidly to chill the mixture. This is then infused overnight to help make our Ice Cream so lovely and creamy.
...the next day we do the 'fun bit' - making the Ice Cream!
We stir in lots of wonderful ingredients to our custard. Pureed strawberries, melted chocolate, and vanilla extract to name but a few.
Once mixed, the custard is poured into a special Italian ice cream freezing machine. This gently whips and freezes it into tasty smooth creamy Ice Cream which takes about 10 minutes. Depending on the flavour we then stir in lots of other wacky things - chocolate flakes, pieces of fudge, caramel sauce, mint choc chip pieces, marshmallows......
And then,
...we spoon all of the yummy Ice Cream into different sized pots and decorate the tops so they look lovely. These are then frozen in our blast freezer which gets them really cold very quickly. And that is it!
Handmade by us for you to enjoy!
Now you know the secret...you can pass it on!
What's your flavour?
Banana & Toffee Ripple
Whipped Banana puree with pieces of butterscotch, swirled with a toffee sauce.
Chunky Chocolate (Supreme Champion Great Yorkshire Show)
Really chocolatey Belgian chocolate Ice Cream mixed with chunks of flakes.
Double Fudge Delight
Caramel fudge whirled into vanilla Ice Cream with squidgy toffee sauce.
Honeycomb Crunch (**Great Taste Award 2011)
Large chunks of honeycomb are smashed and mixed with vanilla Ice Cream making this flavour a real hit!
Marshmallow Munch
A feast of Belgian chocolate Ice Cream with lots of marshmallows, caramel fudge and toffee sauce.
Mint Choc Chip
Masses of chocolate chips whizzed in a cooling minty Ice Cream - really refreshing.
Strawberry Swirl
Pureed strawberries naturally smooth, and fairly fruity too.
Toffee
Rich and smooth toffee stashed with butterscotch pieces.
Vanilla
Gently mixed with Madagascan vanilla this is smooth, creamy and scrummy.
White Chocolate Chunk
Belgian white chocolate melted, cooled and swirled with even more chunks.
