5th February

Childhood Favourites

We are having a short run of warm days, one of a very few this summer, and I have a hankering for something summery and cold! I remember my favourite ice-cream flavours when I was at school. None of the ice cream on a stick varieties back then! Everything was in a cone, and we knew which shops had the most generous hand on the icecream scoop. My particular favourites were blue lagoon - what did that taste like, certainly nothing I had come across natural - and hokeypokey. Little nuggets of crunchey sweetness in vanilla, yum. If I was especially flush with pocket money, I asked for a brown derby, which meant the icecream cone was inverted and dipped into a pot of melted chocolate topping, and sometimes then into chopped nuts. Such decadence!