Ice cream and raw milk and butter

[limster]

Recently tried some Mendip Moments ice cream - luscious, with a rich full on creaminess. The flavours over the underlying cream are subtle or mild by comparison (e.g. a few nice sweet crunches from honeycomb, or fig and honey rendered in watercolour). Get it for the rich cream, not the overlay of flavour. They're sold at Whole Foods (Kensington branch has it).

Lovely raw milk from Hook & Son -- rich, clean flavour, without any trace of barnyard (the raw milk I get from the market in Bermondsey Sq has an interesting shade of pungence). The butter (also from raw milk) is also excellent, very light. They deliver in England and Wales.

[cathodetube]

Read an article yesterday that mentioned a farm called Longley. Think they are in East Sussex. They supply raw milk and butter and ship. I think it is a different farm to the Longley people who make cottage cheese, sour cream etc and who supply to health food stores. They are in Yorkshire.

[Jambie]

I was at the Boroughs Market a couple of weeks ago and sampled some unpasteurized butter which was out of this world. I would have brought it back to the states if I could have. I want to say it might have been at the Real France booth but not 100% sure on that.

[cathodetube]

Do you know where in the country the milk comes from? I had some delicious raw milk from a farm near Bruton, Somerset. Was staying in the area. Took a pan to the farm, they filled it and I used it to make oatmeal and also added some to fresh scrambled eggs. Don't recall any pungency at all. I had heard that someone at the Queen's Park Farmer's Market also sells raw milk. Haven't been there in a while.

[limster]

According to the website for Hook & Sons, their farm is in East Sussex:
http://hookandson.co.uk/THE%20FARM/th...

[Jenny Sheridan]

Any idea for a source of the butter you find occasionally in France, that tastes of creme fraiche - just a little sour but not cheesy?

[limster]

Reminds me a little bit of the butter from Normandy that I used to get at a restaurant in Boston... Not certain of any particular source, but perhaps places like La Fromargerie and Neals Yard might be a good start. Might also be worth checking out the French stall in Borough Market (the one with pots of creme caramel).

[cathodetube]

That place in Borough Market offers really good ice cream. I have liked everything I have tried from there.

[PhilD]

Jenny - I suspect that is a "cultured" butter rather that a "churned" butter. It produces a stronger buttery taste. Suggest you follow Limster's advice and ask if they stock cultured butter, hopefully it is what you are looking for.

[zuriga1]

I've bought the President's brand butter somewhere at the Borough Market, but I doubt that's what you're looking for. I think that's readily available in supermarkets and not so special perhaps. We've bought Normandy butter at a local French outdoor market here in the southland, and that was delicious. Sadly, they don't come around lately.

I was in La Fromagerie yesterday... sorry I didn't know to ask for you about the butter.