“Take a turn nah!” As a child, this was an exciting invitation
for me to try my hand at churning homemade ice-cream. Some kind of wooden
bucket, ice, and salt gives me ice-cream?? I am there!
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| Coconut ice-cream - look at that presentation! |
I soon became wise to this invitation. Hours of hand-cranking bordered on breaking child labour laws! Of course the ice-cream turned out lumpy because somebody didn’t mix the custard powder properly in the milk. And so ended the magic… Too much hard work for lumpy ice-cream. I decided to leave the business of ice-cream making to the more knowledgeable.
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| An old ice-cream maker similar to the one I used as a child |
No artificial flavours, colourings or preservatives in homemade ice-cream.
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| Homemade peanut ice-cream |
There was Willie’s, Munch Kings, B’s homemade ice-cream to name a few of the bigger businesses. The late, Wilbur “Willie” Balgobin, turned a homemade ice cream cart business into a multi-million-dollar chain. It was founded in 1986. Katherine Bethel and her husband Anderson are the founders of B’s Homemade Ice-Cream and have been serving flavourful blends for 26 years like ginger coconut, passion fruit and beetroot.
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| The pail overflowing with ice-cream! |
The Dreamy Creamy Ice Cream Company is a local family-owned
company in San Fernando and distributes its ice cream throughout Trinidad. The
company offers flavours like guava coconut, barbadine, soursop, lychee, lychee cherry
ice, coconut-raisin, Nanas Nuts and Pina Colada.
There’s homemade nutmeg ice cream from Ms. Naomi's ice cream
shop in L' Anse Noire, Toco, and Guinness ice cream from Mama's Homemade Ice
Cream in St. James.
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| Coconut-mango ice-cream |
Miss Babbsie’s homemade ice cream (Ms. Babbsie Ramlogan) in Cumana, Toco has offered creamy delicious ice-cream for the last 13 years. Her ice-cream is not just homemade, but made using the hand-cranked method. Miss. Babbsie can’t make enough ice-cream in her ice-cream parlour for her Saturday and Sunday customers.
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| Soursop ice-cream |
Gail’s Ice Cream Shop (Ms. Gail Charles) on Matura Main Road is known by all venturing up on the north-east coast. Her ice cream is made from fresh fruits picked from her backyard garden maintained by her family.
Homemade ice-cream: in a cone or a cup? What is your favourite?
Home-made ice-cream in a cup with a tiny plastic spoon is my preference. All ice-cream, no stale cone!
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