New Hampshire Food Trail: Ice Cream
With some 130 active dairy farms producing more than 40 million gallons of milk a year, New Hampshire has plenty of fresh stuff left over to accommodate everyone’s favorite traditional summer pastime: a trip to the local ice-cream stand. Most of the state’s dairies lie up and down the Connecticut and Merrimack river valleys, but the ice cream itself–spanning flavors from simple vanilla to “Moose Tracks” (a luscious mix of vanilla, fudge, and peanut-butter cups)–may be found wherever your sweet tooth leads, including shops and takeout places that have been using local ingredients in their deliciously chilly treats for generations.
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In Connecticut, try Kelly’s Kone Konnection at the famous Glenwood Drive In on Whitney Avenue in Hamden.
Kelly’s sweet cream and the maple walnut are great! (Lots of kiddy-flavor favorites, too, but I like the old standards.
What about Lagos on Rt 1 in Rye?
My mother’s family are all from Rye where I spent every summer growing up. I agree with the Lagos suggestion. I’m in Ct. now and so far haven’t found any ice cream locations to compare with those in NH and Vt.
In Newtown, CT- Ferris Farm ice cream on Rte 302- homemade ice cream with the cows right there! and large portions!
How ’bout Kimball Farms in Jaffrey, NH? I think they have a stand in Mass. too. Don’t bother to order their ice cream unless you’re VERY hungry. Their baby size is huge, and their huge size could feed a family. I have a hot fudge sundae (some variation on coffee ice cream, please) there for supper every summer. They have “real” meals, too.