Just Heaven... (Roskilly's Farm, Shop and Ice Cream)

Member Name: chriswotton

Product:	Roskilly's Farm, Shop and Ice Cream
Date:	04/08/03 (330 review reads)
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Advantages: Delicious Ice Cream, Other Food & Drink, Fantastic Grounds, Family Friendly And Lots More Advantages But Nowhere To List Them...

Disadvantages: None

Roskilly's is a family run, working organic farm just down the road from St. Keverne, a small village a little away from Helston in Cornwall.

On the farm, the family make clotted cream, fudge, an assortment of jams and lots more. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot the main reason I go to Roskillys - the dream ice cream!

The ice cream is all home made on the farm with only the freshest of ingredients and home made clotted cream. The unbelievable range of ice creams and sorbets they offer really is...well unbelievable. I'll round up a few of the top flavours.

Hokey Pokey - Real dairy vanilla ice cream with whirls of homemade honeycomb.

Nutcracker Sweet - A blend of apricots and crunchy almonds in delicious ice cream.

Fairy's Fency - A delicious yet simple goosebery ice cream that's neither too sweet nor sour.

Blushing Bride - Delicious, rich white chocolate ice cream with a unique raspberry sauce ripple.

Orang-ohh-Tang - A very rich, elegant tasting and undoubtedly delicious ice cream with an orange ice cream base, with lashings of mascarpone cheese and pieces of orange.

Streakers Squeek - Blackcurrant cheesecake ice cream.

Tipsy Topsy Turvey - A delicious trifle ice cream with a dash of alcohol!

Yo Ho Ho & a Scoop of Ice Cream! - Classic Rum and Raisin with a difference.

Woodland Wonder - A delicious fruits of the forest ice cream perfect for a summer lick.

Roskilly's in fact offer over 40 flavours of ice cream, and this i just a sample of their offerings. All the ice cream is made from the rich organic milk, cream and low fat yoghurt, from the Roskilly's Jersey herd, this is the key to its flavour. The ice cream is made with the very finest Italian equipment to produce what the Italians call artisan ice cream with oodles of flavour and texture. They make many of the ingredients themselves on the farm itself, so they can be used fresh with no pr
eservatives. Fresh fruit jams, small cubes of fudge, Hokey Pokey crunch and sponge cakes for the trifle and the tiramisu are made to fold in to the ice cream. This all helps to give the individual and distinctive character to the Roskilly's ice creams. Roskilly's are always trying new and unusual flavours. You can taste them in the farm ice cream parlour and also all over Cornwall from Lands End to Looe in shops everywhere - but be careful not to over indulge!

On their web site (at www.roskillys.co.uk) you can also suggest a new flavour idea, and they promise to consider them all. You never know, yours could go into mass production!

Besides their famousness for ice cream, Roskilly's also produce and sell clotted cream, fudge, apple juice, cider, jams, mustards, chutneys, marmalades, pasties, truffles and furniture polish which is made from the beeswax produced on the farm.

Rachel Roskilly has been making clotted cream in the farmhouse for over forty years. The evening's milk is passed through a separator while still warm from the cow. This machine separates the cream from the milk, leaving skimmed milk. The cream is then heated to make it into clotted cream and is put into tubs for sale in the Croust House the following day. It is also used in the Cornish cream teas and, of course, the ice cream and fudge.

Made with milk and generous helpings of clotted cream - mouth-watering farmhouse fudge. These flavours are available. Clotted Cream, Chocolate, Chocolate and mint, Rum and Raisin, Coffee and Walnut, Ginger and Hazelnut.
There is also fudge dipped in dark chocolate - a superb combination.

In Autumn the apples are collected, crushed and squeezed. This is either bottled as seven varieties of juice or fermented into cider according to an old recipe of Joe's. The apple juices which range from moderately sharp to sweet are coxes (sweet), bramleys (medium sharp) egmont russet (pear tasting), james greev
es (crisp), braeburn (crisp) and discovery (crisp). There is also Apple Juice Punch and Cider Punch using a speciality recipe of spices.
The Scrumpy Cider is sold in bottles to take away as well as draught in the Croust House.

Jams, mustards, chutneys and marmalades are all made according to Rachel Roskilly's traditional recipes. Raspberry and elderflower, strawberry and orange and blackberry and apple jams are available, while in the way of mustards, black pepper, garlic, horseradish, rum, orange and tarragon are all available. Chutney flavours available include gingery apple and almond, tangy tomato relish, green tomato, hot orange and apple and spicy apricot. A three fruit marmalade is also available.

Hand made traditional Cornish Pasties made on the farm using the finest local ingredients and cooked freshly everyday. As well as from the Croust House, these are sold wholesale (frozen and uncooked) to other bake-off establishments.

Excruciatingly tempting boozy home-made truffles made with chocolate and clotted cream are always on sale in the Croust House and are also sold elsewhere in Cornwall.

Roskilly's goes beyond food, and a trip there entails the delight of wandering around their amazingly huge grounds with the large and small ponds, empty fields perfect for strolling through, watching the cows as they drink from the stream and getting your friend to balance on a rock so she can feed the cows then pushing her over into the field (or at least, pretending to...).

Back to the food and drink, there's indoor and outdoor seating, so you can sit out in the sun on a lovely courtyard-type area, or snuggle up in front of their enormous log fires inside if it's a bit chilly. There's also a gift shop with many amazing books, toys for kids and gorgeous furniture and glassware, a plant stall outside in the courtyard area. Roskilly's also host regular evening barbecues during the summer for delicious
food followed by an ice cream!

Roskilly's really is utter divinity for anyone who enjoys food, drink or the outside world.

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