Ice cream, ice cream, we all scream for ice cream

What is your favourite flovour?

There are so many to choose: standards like chocolate, vanilla or strawberry or do you want to taste new flavours such as Coffee Garlic Herb Almond Chip, Wasabi or Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Ice Cream?

This is a simple recipe you can make at home:

6 cups of light cream

1 1/4 cup of sugar

Pinch of salt

1 - 2 cups of fruit pulp - your choice

Heat the cream to just below the boiling point. Remove from heat and add salt and sugar. Stir and let cool.

Add the fruit pulp.

Chill and stir-freeze.

Ice cream makers were common in homes. Pack ice and rock salt into the outer bucket and place the mixed ingredients inside. Turn the crank to mix and chill the ice cream at the same time. This could be an activity for the whole family or something to keep the children busy for the afternoon. Eat immediately or store in the freezer for a treat at the end of a hot day in the fields.

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Donor: Sussex Sharing Club

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Donor: Sussex Farm Supplies

Sussex Ice Cream of the 1960’s was produced by Sussex Cheese and Butter. The company was started in 1898 to market cheese and other dairy products from local farms. As the company grew, they expanded into ice cream and other dairy products. In 1949, this success led to the formation of a new venture, owned by the Sussex Cheese and Butter Co., called the Millstream Dairy Creamery Co. 9. Both companies were bought out in 1974 by the Barbours Dairy Ltd. Co.

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Donor: Freeze family

You can buy Sussex Ice Cream today.

Since 2008 Sussex Ice Cream has been hand-crafted in a renovated former dairy barn by the Freeze family of Penobsquis. Their website, Sussex Ice Cream | super premium ice cream, explains that their logo represents the story of their family’s dairy farm and the history of many small farms in the region. "Milk and cream producers historically received a producer number. That number was painted on the milk cans that were transported by horse to the train that went to Saint John to be emptied at the dairy. When the empty cans came back the next day, the farmer knew which cans were theirs. 161 was our farm’s number."

Support Local Businesses - look for Sussex Ice Cream at your favourite ice cream stand, corner market or grocery store.