Why It Tastes So Good.
Our delicious range of ice creams are all made here at Callestick Farm. Using the fresh milk all from our own free range herd, rich double cream or thick Cornish clotted cream, as well as the finest natural ingredients – our dedicated team in the factory produce flavour upon flavour of champion Cornish ice cream.
Aside from being made in the Cornish countryside and by caring local hands, there are a couple of other factors that make our ice cream so delicious.
Our happy grass fed herd has a lot to do with it, as their milk produces so many beneficial vitamins and minerals which goes into our ice cream.
Clotted cream is a renowned Cornish treasure, and while it’s lovely with jam and scones, we think it’s even lovelier mixed with a host of other flavours and popped into a tub or onto a cone! Clotted cream is a much denser, richer cream than most, which gives it a more concentrated flavour in the ice cream. We, like our customers, think this differentiation is key to creating the tastiest ice cream around!
How It Is Made.
Milk from our herd of Jersey x Friesian cows arrives fresh into the factory each day from the dairy across the valley.
The milk flows into the ‘heating tank’ where we add all the key ingredients; double or clotted cream, skimmed milk powder (for protein), sugars & stabilisers.
This mix passes through a homogeniser, producing really smooth texture, and then into the pasteuriser where it is held at 66°C for half an hour to destroy any bacteria.
It then passes through a plate cooler and in to one of the aging vessels to finish cooling. The mix is then chilled overnight – this is known as ‘ageing’.
Any flavourings are then added to the mixture before it is pumped into the continuous freezer. Fruits or confectionery are dropped through the hopper into the semi frozen ice cream.
The larger tubs are filled by hand but our little theatre tubs are filled automatically using the Flex-e-fill machine.
The smaller pots - poly pots, 125ml or 500ml - are filled, lidded, coded and boxed before they go into the freezer, the hand filled tubs are filled lidded, labelled, date coded and trolleyed into the freezer.
Proud M&S Producer.
You may have heard that we produce ice cream for foodie retail giant, Marks & Spencer. We managed to scoop the contract back in the autumn of 2021 with the aim to fulfil and extend their Cornish ice cream range.
The huge contract created much excitement but also lots of work to be done on the farm, with production and freezer space being the main concern. After months of hard work through a cold & wet winter, the factory size increased by 60%.
We now have a newly installed spiral freezer, which has taken the lengthy overnight freezing process in the blast freezer to a now speedy 60-minute journey on a freezer come helter-skelter. This new method of freezing now means a greater volume of product can be produced and of even smoother consistency than before.
The M&S Cornish range is now 100% our product - produced and dispatched from our farm here in the heart of Cornwall to freezers in M&S stores all across the UK.
