Here's me eating ice cream in the snow.
Here's my mum making our very popular and very good black peas.
Ice cream sales were low because of the snow. But we sold out of black peas. Thats the last market this year, but we will be back in January at Appley Bridge on the 15th, and Hoghton Tower the day after. Thanks everyone who bought anything!
Today we did Morecambe Farmer Market where we were selling ice creams and cheese. It's a very good market.
I haven't updated this blog for a while so here's a post to show that we are still going! Today we where at Burscough Farmers Market. We had cheese and ice cream for sale. The cheese sold well especially the Lancashire cheeses so I'll get more of them next month for the Christmas Market there.
We have started selling cheese at some of the Farmers Markets we go to. Here's the cheeses we had for sale at Appley Bridge Farmers Market on Saturday. All the cheese is from the award winning Greenfields Dairy in Goosnargh.
It was remarkably wet at Hoghton Tower this month. We didn't sell many ice creams but managed to sell out of Lancashire Griddle Cakes. The top picture shows our special Autumn themed ice creams that I have made recently. I'll update the flavours list soon to show what's left.
Here's the fruit before I add the cream for two new ice creams. There's another batch of plum at the back (plum is one of my favourite ice creams so far) and at the front is a brand new flavour - Greengage. It tastes lovely so far! Greengages are like green plums, I'd never tasted one before but they are amazing. They taste a bit like gooseberry, a bit like apple and a bit like plum. Very exciting. All our fruit ice creams are made of fruit, sugar and cream, nothing weird.
This was our best farmers market yet, we sold a lot of Whinberry Ice Cream, though I still have about ten left until it is all gone.
Thanks to everyone who bought an ice cream at the Harpers lane Allotment Open Day, it was our most succesful day yet! This week I will be making lots and lots more ice cream. I still have a bunch of flavours left and by friday should be back up to a good number. I have run out of sweet potato and pecan though.
It was a very rainy and windy day at Hoghton Tower Farmers Market, but we did surprisingly well. We had the new whinberry ice cream, Lancashire griddle cakes, meringues and strawberry and gooseberry custard tarts. As you can see above, the rain washed the writing off our chalk boards. Thanks to everyone who bought something!
At Scarisbrick Farmers Market on Tuesday. We soon sold out of Sweet Potato and Pecan Ice Cream which always seems a good seller though it's unusual.
Freshly picked blackcurrants from the allotment make a lovely, and very strong ice cream. Our fruit ice creams are made from only fruit, a bit of sugar and cream.
Here's our stall at our first 'Merchants of Hoghton' Farmers Market in June. We now have a much better 'list of flavours' blackboard.
These are whinberries we picked from the bushes growing wild on Winter Hill near Bolton. They are very slow to pick and take ages as the berries grow very spaced out on the little plants. They make lovely ice cream though.
