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Its original ice cream is gluten free and you can ask about a lactose-free ice cream which is also suitable for vegans. Now there are at least 14 different flavours appearing on a rotational basis, including crème brulee, bilberry, cappuccino, forest fruits and old fashioned stracciatella – vanilla with thin shards of chocolate. Initially there was just the one flavour, ‘fior di latte,’ which translates as ‘milk flower,’ and because it only uses basic ingredients meant it could still be produced in the war years. The ice cream is made to a secret family recipe. This family run café and ice cream parlour known locally as Delaval Ices, has been going for nearly 90 years and specialises in homemade traditional Italian desserts. It’s been a great year for this family run gelateria – they’ve recently won two gold’s for their lemon and lime sorbet and coffee ice cream, a silver for their vanilla and a bronze for their peanut brittle at the National Ice Cream Awards.īut if you can’t get along to Blyth, the Ciccarelli family also run a fleet of more than 20 ice cream vans.Ĭrescent Café, Seaton Delaval, Northumberland High street stockists include the Moorhouse Farm Shop at Stannington, Knitsley Farm Shop near Consett, County Durham, and the National Trust shop at Gibside, Burnopfield.Ĭiccarelli, Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 3PL How about English breakfast marmalade, or Cointreau and orange, bubblegum or even popcorn? And don’t miss out on their sloe gin sorbet or sour cherry and amaretto. There are some amazing flavours to choose from. With more than 70 Great Taste Awards – the Oscars of the food industry – under their belt, Beckleberry’s must be doing something right.Īnd you can enjoy their award-winning ices and sorbets at their coffee shop cum ice cream parlour situated on the Upper Mall at Gateshead Metrocentre. The impressive seasonal range includes everything from Simple Jersey (sometimes all you need) to seasonal Christmas pudding ice cream, toffee fudge, lemon cheesecake, strawberry, banana, chocolate, cookies and cream and tiramisu.Īnd if you can’t make it along to one of Archers parlours, their ice cream is luckily available to buy from outlets across the region, including the likes of Bradley Burn Farm Shop at Wolsingham, Dropswell Farm Shop at Trimdon and Mrs P’s Country Kitchen in Barnard Castle.Ĭream Curls ice cream parlour on Percy Street in Newcastle City Centre (Newcastle Chronicle) Beckleberry’s, Cowen Road, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, NE21 5TW There’s even an Archer’s outlet now in Liverpool.Īrcher’s ice creams (there are over 60 flavour options) have won numerous awards over the years – including many prestigious Guild of Fine Food Great Taste accolades. It has now expanded to include a number of Archers’ parlours across the North East, including Newcastle and Yarm on Teesside as well as the original at New Moor Farm. And thus the ice cream business was born. Having lost their original herd of Holstein Friesians in the epidemic, they instead began milking Jersey cows. John and Susan Archer and their three children started their ice cream business in 2002 in the wake of the devastating foot and mouth outbreak. Archers Jersey Ice Cream, New Moor Farm, Walworth Gate, Darlington The last few years has also seen an explosion of artisan run ice cream parlours and makers in the UK – with the North East boasting a plethora of both award-winning and family run businesses selling everything from traditional homemade flavours to more experimental and creative offerings.Īmong the newer city hot-spots - or should that be cool spots - are Creams which opened in 2015 on the Grainger Street corner of the Bigg Market and Cream Curls which launched in Percy Street in February this year.
Life was so much easier when all you had to worry about was choosing between a Haunted House or Lord Toffingham ice cream lolly.īut it’s not all bad news on the ice cream sandwich front.
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It’s a sign of how times have changed – reflected in the fact that the world can now be viewed in full HD and 3-D colour rather than grainy monochrome!įor those of a certain age, the arrival of the Android ice cream sandwich (and its more up-to-date rivals the equally sweetly named Jelly Bean and Kitkat) hasn’t necessarily been something to jump up and down with joy about. Mention an ice cream sandwich now and you average child is likely to set off on a long discourse on the dessert-themed Android platform for phones and tablets (the mobile computer kind rather than a medicinal pill). It was the time when Fab, Zoom, Cider Quench, Cola Rola, Feasts, Woppas, Funny Faces and vanilla ice cream wafer sandwiches were seen as the height of frozen snack sophistication.Īnd the mid-afternoon ice cream run on a sunny summer’s day would have had youngsters – their 2½p clutched tightly in their hand – reaching for a Lolly Gobble Choc Bomb, Cornish Strawberry Mivvi or Space 1999.
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