5 Favorite New England Ice Cream Flavors
From black raspberry ice cream to frozen pudding ice cream, here are 5 favorite uniquely New England ice cream flavors.
By Aimee Tucker|Jun 30 2022|
Coffee By Design | Portland, Maine
Photo Credit : Katherine KeenanOne often-repeated but hard-to-verify factoid states that New Englanders consume more ice cream per capita than folks anywhere else in the country, and we’re inclined to believe it. In addition to our general ice cream love, however, we’ve also cornered the market on a few ice cream flavors that are often considered especially New England-y.
Can you guess what they are? Read on to learn more about 5 Favorite New England ice cream flavors, then let us know yours!
In search of one place that could deliver scoops of all 5 on my list, I made the 15-minute drive from the Yankee office to Kimball Farm in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. You may recall we visited Kimball Farm earlier this summer, in search of advice on how to make one of their famous banana splits, but if not, you can watch the video here.
With the help of friendly scooper Taran, I left armed with 5 kiddie cups full of cold, creamy goodness. Unfortunately, they were also melting fast! October weather in New England, as we all know, can go either way, and it was a warm one — nearing 70 degrees! Fortunately, ice cream tastes just as good soft as it does rock-hard from the freezer.
So, here they are in alphabetical order (no playing favorites when it comes to a group of favorites, right?).
5 Favorite New England Ice Cream Flavors
Photo Credit : Aimee Seavey
Black Raspberry Ice Cream
Whenever we talk about New England food on our social media channels, we hear a lot of love for black raspberry ice cream. Vibrantly purple and raspberry sweet, this one is a colorful keeper.
Photo Credit : Aimee Seavey
Coffee Ice Cream
Ahhh, coffee ice cream. Here in New England (and especially in Rhode Island), we take our coffee love seriously, and that includes in ice cream form. Smooth and bold with big coffee flavor, the only way to make it better is to blend it into a coffee cabinet (or frappe) made with Autocrat Coffee Syrup.
Make a Batch: Creamy Coffee Ice Cream Recipe
Photo Credit : Aimee Seavey
Frozen Pudding Ice Cream
Some say it’s an acquired taste, some say it’s just a Yankee word for dressed up rum raisin, while others claim you’ve got to be of a certain age to order it, but the rum-based frozen pudding ice cream, loaded with plump fruit, is still a classic. We often hear from New Englanders that have since moved away, wondering if you can still order a cup. “It was my Dad’s favorite flavor back in the day” one reader said.
Photo Credit : Aimee Seavey
Grapenut Ice Cream
We love Grapenut anything in New England (especially Grapenut Pudding), so why not ice cream? Here, a vanilla base ice cream is thick with nutty, soft bits of Grape-Nuts cereal. Try it once and love it for life! We swear!
Make a Batch: Grapenut Ice Cream Recipe
Photo Credit : Aimee Seavey
Maple Walnut Ice Cream
A true New England classic. Creamy maple ice cream studded with crunchy walnuts — does it get any better than this?
The last time we asked our Facebook fans about coffee ice cream, we heard a lot of replies like this instead:
- “Coffee Ice cream? Available anywhere. BUT, Maple Walnut Ice cream…..now you’re talking about a rare treat.“
- “I’m a born and raised New Englander (MA), I like coffee ice cream. But oh that maple walnut – LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!“
- “Maple Walnut ice cream is a rare treat but that is something I cannot find anywhere in Tucson, AZ. When we lived back in Maine I remember eating Maple Walnut with sour cream potato chips. It was delicious…”
Clearly, this is one unique New England ice cream flavor worth treasuring.
Make a Batch: Maple Walnut Ice Cream Recipe
Which ice cream flavors remind YOU of New England? Let us know in the comments!
This post was first published in 2015 and has been updated.
Frozen pudding!!!!! We lived for that flavor to show up at our local Brigham’s each holiday season
All the others are great,too, but when I saw the title of your article – first words – Frozen Pudding!!! (Unheard of here in Virginia 
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Truly scrumptious, all! I worked at the former “Bosworth’s Farm” which became “Maygold Farms,” and our cows (some ALWAYS available for petting) made with most wonderful cream. Flavors abounded including all of these, and Orange Pineapple that wasn’t sherbet. Try any of these in a frappe and you will have an even HARDER time picking a fave. Maple Walnut makes an extraordinary frappe, as does Black Raspberry.
The creamery was in Pomfret, CT. Big oops!
Black Raspberry…with dark chocolate chunks! Mmmmm….
I have lived in NH all my life….and I had forgotten about Frozen Pudding! It was one of my Mom’s favorites…That and Rum Raisin.
Thanks for the memories.
i love Giffords Grapenut, Maine Black Bear, Toasted Coconut and Chocolate Toasted Coconut. And Giffords Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip Frozen Yogurt is amazing, too!
I like grape nut but…nothing on earth like maple walnut. I grew up in Detroit, Maine. Still have it when I go north.
Being from the Midwest I never had Maple Walnut or Grape Nut ice cream until my first trip back east over 20 years ago. I have returned almost every year since that first trip and I always seek out the Maple Walnut ice cream first thing. You can bet that within a two week time period I will have eaten my weight in Maple Walnut.
I didn’t get to come back this year due to medical issues but I did copy the recipe off your site and am planning on making some this weekend.
I’m from New England, transplanted to Kansas due to my husband’s job (Hills’s Science Diet). I have wild blackberries growing along my driveway. I know it’s a stretch but I always think of black raspberry ice cream back home.
Black Raspberry at Big Daddy’s in Wells was always my favorite when living in Maine. Still is on visits back home from San Diego.
They are all delicious but Ginger is truly New England and my favorite.
Wow !! To make a choice. I love coffee, then I saw grape nut. Black raspberry was always my favorite (you’d think I was crazy when I ask for it here in Texas) but then I saw Maple Walnut. I wish I could have them all, but if it has to be just one, it would have to be Maple Walnut.
Coffee hands down but also black raspberry which is hard to get as is maple walnut. I settle for a Bragg’s maple creme in East Montpelier. This is Ben & Jerry’s land so I go for a number of weird ones, especially ones with candy bars in them!
I live in Philadelphia but I spent 11 yrs 10 months in MA with many many trips back to see my grandmother and relatives and friends. Coffee ice cream was her favorite. I love maple walnut. I only see it here once
in a blue moon and its usually a specialty item in a tiny container. Sure do love that new England ice cream.
Frozen Pudding, I guess if you like a really good fruitcake, which Yankee Magazine has a few recipes for you must like Frozen Pudding…Rum Raisin just does not cut it, and that is all I can find in Vegas so far…
All the flavors you mention are favorites in this house not many flavors we do not like in this house…
Of the flavors you pictured, coffee is my favorite. Actually, Maple alone would be my favorite, but you rarely see that. Luckily, our favorite local ice cream shop, Holy Cow in Charlestown, RI, made a Maple Cream flavor this summer without nuts that was out of this world. I ordered it every time after it first appeared. I will miss it this winter.
We love pistachio (Brighams) and Giffords Moose Tracks. The ice cream store in Bath Maine is a great place for many choices.
As a life long New Englander who frankly hasn’t traveled much it is so strange to hear people talk about not being able to find Maple Walnut or Black Raspberry ice cream. What do these “infidels” in the rest of the country eat?
YUM! Black Raspberry, Frozen Pudding, Orange Pineapple, Ginger, Grapenut, Coconut, Beach Plum, Pumpkin, Black Cherry and Strawberry ice cream. I am thinking of all the beautiful colors and luscious flavors. Thanks for the delectable memories!
Coffee! There is also a place Provincetown called Lewis Brothers that has the most delicious Mudslide Chip ice cream made with the actual drink ingredients!
How do I vote for my favorite “MAPLE WALNUT” ,. It said to click on the picture to register your vote,. when I do nothing happens ,.,.
Hi Peter,
Your comment counts as your vote. Thanks for taking the time to let us know that maple walnut is your favorite!
Maple Walnut for sure. Ice Cream shop off route 1 in Wells ME is the best. Friendy’s is always around for a backup year round
My favorite is Moose Tracks!!!!! Either that or a Chocolate Frappe!!!! YUM!!!!!
Black raspberry with chocolate jimmies is the best flavor ever! I first loved it at Neponset Valley Farm on Route 1 in Norwood, MA. Now I get it wherever I can.
Moose Droppings,worth the trip from the uk earlier this year.Also I loved the roadside icecream stand,i knew it would be good by the size of the queue,nothing like it here,a brilliant idea.
Definitely maple walnut!
Frozen Pudding is my very all time favorite. And now that I have learned to make ice cream, I can’t seem to find a recipe for it ANYWHERE!!
Can anyone help??
I know it’s like rum raisin, which I have found a recipe for, but what else goes into frozen pudding??????
It is a tough choice but I have two favorites on this list: Toss up between Coffee and Maple Walnut.
A close second would be Frozen Pudding. What I order at the ice cream shop is determined by how I feel at that point.
Maple Walnut is the best especially after tramping all over the mountain side and throwing a fishing line into the brooks all day. A Vermont memory from years ago!
Maple Walnut Use to get it at Peaceful Meadows in Whitman, Mass.
Try the HUB in Tucson. We thought of your article last week at Kimball’s.
Thought I was the only person in southeast Ma. that orders grape nut ice cream almost every time,
especially at Peaceful Meadows.
Black Raspberry, here is PA we have an ice cream shop that makes delicious black raspberry. Then I remembered coffee ice cream with chocolate syrup. That’s why I like ice coffee with sweetener & milk, tastes like coffee ice cream!
I am living in Tx, but am lucky to have a brother living in Temple, so I can always get to Kimballs when we visit. Their selection is amazing. There are not any ice cream shops in Tx anything like the ones in New England. Our local brand is Blue Bell which is pretty good, but they had a problem this year with listeria and are still in the process of coming back. It is pretty good ice cream, but nothing like what can be had in the Northeast.
I have always loved coffee ice cream. However, at Rota Springs in Lancaster, MA I have totally fallen in love with their pumpkin ice cream. I usually get 2 scoops and get one of pumpkin and the second one of either grapenut or eggnog. They have the best ice cream and selection of any place I’ve been
Ice cream is dependent upon the cream factor. The richer the cream, The more it holes in the Belsches flavors black raspberry ice cream with the 16% cream is the best.
I’ve lived in Pennsylvania and there the local favorite is teaberry ice cream. I’ve lived in Rhode Island and tried all those favors at Gray’s in Four Corners..been to Kimballs when we visit the relatives in New Hampshire. Hands down the New England flavor has to be Maple Walnut, with the Northeast New England flavor of Frozen Pudding. Can’t get that one in Pennsylvania!
Chocolate lovers trash at brusters and raspberry rumble from Schwans
black raspberry – i’vel loved it since i was a little girl and my father would take us to a great ice cream parlor in worcester – Smithfield’s – alas – long gone !
I was wonder if they still made ginger ice cream. Now I know. I had some several decades ago at a little place in south-east N.H. on either route 5 0r 10 and will never forget how delicious it was! When I mention it to people
out here in Sacramento no one has heard of it but thinks it sounds wonderful. Thanks for mentioning it.
Had Maple Walnut recently at Peaceful Meadows. Still the best ice cream!
Rum raisin is my favorite ice cream. I mived to NY several years ago & it’s hard to find here. I sure do miss it.
For what it’s worth Haagen Dazs makes an excellent Rum Raisin. If you can’t find the one you like.
I am a lifelong CT Yankee and my favorite flavor of ice cream has always been chocolate, but when we would go to Maine each summer, I could never resist Round Top’s “Almond Joy” ice cream. Here in CT, I love the “Chocolate Malt” and “Rich Chocolate” ice creams at Dr. Mike’s. Yummy! (There goes the diet!)
I’ve been living on the West Coast for 20 years, pining away for the best flavor ever, Grapenut!
I’d have it whenever I came home to NH once a year.
I’m lucky enough to live in a neighborhood in Seattle with a small, locally owned and run, neighborhood ice cream shop.
They change flavors almost every day, and a couple of months ago they had a tub of Grapenut Ice Cream!!!
I made a total a** of myself, telling everyone they HAD TO HAVE IT!
I was so happy, I nearly cried…I hadnt been back east since my mom passed away 3 years ago…
I grew up near Watch Hill RI and we lived for the summer opening of Mrs. Traggis’ ice cream. I always had a difficult time choosing between black raspberry, peach, maple walnut and butter crunch! My mother would usually choose coffee or maple walnut. I have lived in St. Louis MO for 30 years and can’t find any of these flavors. People here don’t understand about coffee syrup, cabinets & fried clams with the bellies. A side note – I have had QUAHOG on my license plate for 25 years and it is a terrific conversation starter when people ask me about it!
Isn’t that the name of the town the Griffins live in on Family Guy?
I guess my favorites didn’t make the cut. I like “Bear Tracks” which is Black Raspberry with Chocolate Chunks. Yum! I also like Pumpkin Spice at this time of year.
Well Maple Walnut is my first pick and Peanut Butter Fudge is my second and Strawberry comes in last.
I MISS Black Raspberry ice cream sooo much…mostly from Lone Oak,in Rochester or Rye NH as we moved from New Hampshire to Florida in 2004. I’ve also had black raspberry at Kimballs in MA and Brown’s in York, ME…both excellent, but Lone Oak will always be my favorite ice cream place! Maple Walnut is good too. Also Wild Maine Blueberry from Brown’s.
I lived in Kennebunkport for 5 years, ate at the clam shack a couple times a week, now live in Florida but go up every summer for the haddock, love it!!
I used to have a little ice cream stand and sold Gifford’s, the best around. My favorite my whole life was always Black Raspberry and then I also loved Butter Crunch when that came out, it was a great seller. They don’t make it anymore and i miss it. Both flavors are excellant with hot fudge. I think Gifford’s 5 stands are opening this weekend, yummy!
For what it’s worth, Friendly’s Butter Crunch has been my, and many other hardcore Friendly’s enthusiasts of the Northeast, favorite flavor for decades. That’s saying a lot since all their flavors are excellent.
My mom used to take me to the Dairy Bar, the old train station in Durham, NH on UNH campus, all the time growing up in the ’70s. I know maple walnut was a favorite when I was very young, black raspberry and coffee are still my two favorites to this day! Especially black raspberry with jimmies. Unfortunately living in AZ now, coffee ice cream from Ben and Jerry’s is really all I can get. But when I do make it back home first thing I will do is order a massive seafood platter and then go for black raspberry with jimmies.
You can not get Maple Nut or Maple Walnut in St. Louis, MO., in any store, one Ice Cream Store in St. Louis that makes it from time to time. In my travel days as a Salesman, I could get it in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, Kansas. I just went home to my 60 year reunion in Omak Washington where I was able to get it in my home town of Conconully, WA., population 250 people, but St. Louis, it’s a 20 mile drive, if they have it, call ahead. Fact is St. Louis does not have one good Ice Creams store in West County, looking for a Braums type store like they have in Texas, Kansas.
We visited The Maine Diner near Wells, ME in April and, after a delicious dinner, tried their house specialty ice cream–blueberry with chocolate flakes. It was terrific, and we stopped back for more a couple of days later. According to the waitress, this ice cream is made especially for the diner so you’ll have to stop by to try it. You won’t be disappointed!
To the comment from Tucson, Az I too love Maple Walnut Ice cream and I am from New England. FYI you can get good Maple Walnut Ice Cream from Schwans Home Delivery. It is very good.
I never tasted an ice cream flavor I didn’t LOVE!!!!!! And we New Englanders eat it 365 days a year……. even during a blizzard!
grew up in Attleboro Ma. A treat was to Bristol Farms or Bliss Bros. Coffee or Maple Walnut YUM! Moved to Olean, NY coffee ? Maple walnut?? In 62 moved to No Calif. Coffee, yes MW no. Still have not found Maple Walnut. Now live in San Diego just found a very little Maine Lobster Roll rest. So good now to cap it off need the ice cream! My mom loved Black Walnut and Pistachio.
Lynne!
I can’t believe you lived in Olean, NY for a time! My family moved there from Jamestown, NY in 1960 so my dad could open up his new business. I went to elementary and high school there (Archbishop Walsh). Will have my 50th H.S. reunion in 2018. Not many people know about Olean, but there is St. Bonaventure College there which is fairly well-known in the basketball area. And to live in San Diego! My dream is to visit there sometime as I am pretty much retired now. Just need some time and money! What did you or your family do or work there I Olean? Best,Mary
Frozen Pudding & Grapenut best followed by coffee and Maple Walnut Get all four in a sampler dish at “The Sundae School ice cream bar” in Dennisport MA> (cape Cod) I would drive from Schenectady New York (4hrs) right now for my fix.
If you want a truly New England ice cream experience, it has got to be Indian Pudding. When this is spied on a ice cream shoppe menu, there’s nearly a 100% chance that you are in the Northeast.
If you want the best, Rota Spring Farm in Sterling is the winner…
(and if you aren’t daring enough to go for molasses and cornmeal in your ice cream, most of the rest of their flavors are in the top echelon for the whole region)
My father would take the family to the Howard Johnson for a Sunday ice cream cone. I would chose a different flavor each time. That was how I discovered maple walnut. This became my favorite! Haven’t seen it much now that I live in Southern California.
My favorite is Maple Walnut and when I go back to MA, I always get a huge cone every chance I get. No such thing in NC. Loved reading all of the comments.
Like every New Englander I love ice cream. I grew up here and will always be one. One winter day in Indiana after lunch I bought an ice cream cone and ate it on the way back to my office. One I was there I glanced at the Wall Street Journal and saw a small article about how people in New England eat more ice cream than people in any other part of the country. On that day there sure wasn’t anyone else eating an ice cream cone on the street.
One summer when I was in college I worked in an ice cream stand and started work at 4:30 so had ice cream for supper every night all summer. People said that I would get tired of it but I sure didn’t. My favorites are black raspberry, maple walnut and mint chocolate chip. However, there are about 5 that I won’t eat and they include frozen pudding, coffee and grapenut.
I have to stick up for blueberry ice cream. I can’t get enough of it. Ginger is my second favorite.
A New Hampshire native and ayuh, I love coffee. Black raz, mmmm. But I have to say my plain Jane favorite ice cream is chocolate. I know it can be found anywhere, and I think I have tried most all available to me. But my absolute favorite chocolate ice cream is Brigham’s from right here in New England. Like no other, Yum!
Well, another local favorite here on the seacoast was Indian Pudding at the now defunct Browns at Cape Neddick…Now that’s a New England flavor…
Born and raised in New Hampshire and my favorite is Indian Pudding, though tough to find. Luckily, I’m close to Arnie’s in Concord–a delightful place with all sorts of favorites. Do enjoy Maple walnut at the Northland Dairy Bar (on sugar cone) in Berlin when I’m up there.
Do you have the frozen pudding recipe, it is not in this article.
I grew up in CT and went to Knudsen’s in North Haven. Love black raspberry, maple walnut, pistachio, and deep chocolate. Always loves hot fudge sundaes with black raspberry ice cream.
I grew up in Ledyard CT. I remember one day when I was little, preschool age, my mom took me shopping in Norwich. She told me that if I was good I could have an ice cream cone at Hazel’s across from the school. I don’t know if it was unusual for me to be good but I was able to have the ice cream cone. I chose maple walnut because I liked maple syrup and we had a black walnut tree in our backyard. The taste of that cone was amazing. I can almost taste it now, some 60+ years later in Indiana. Still my favorite!
Oh, can’t believe so many New England erstwhile not mentioning the flavor …Chocolate Walnut, it’s my very Favorite! I was born and still live in Massachusetts, and Kimballs is the top notch Oscar any ice cream stands we’ve been To! Kimballs in Westford, MA is the Mother house of all three. Another good stand is Treadwells. Kimballs has the largest selection of flavors I’ve ever Seen! Treadwells and Kimballs they both sell Chocolate Walnut (homemade ice cream)! Oh, don’t like the chocolate walnut that has the stream of fudge through it, just plain Chocolate Walnut, there’s definitely a difference! Can’t move away from New England, I’m too much of an ice cream addict…..and it’s the BEST here!
Sounds like my mom’s favorite at Peaceful Meadows, I think they call it fudge walnut. Its delicious and only one of my favorites.
Way back in the 30’s spent summers at Blue Meadows in Noank, Conn. The local soda fountain had ginger ice cream, still my favorite but hard to find here on eastern LI.
Had that and liked it at Bedford Farms, Bedford, MA. Also love pumpkin, and Bates Farm– or is it Kimball’s? in Carlisle, MA
Bates or Kimballs? Carlisle or Westford? I forget, but it has a tractor to climb on and animals to look at.
And my first job at Bubbling Brook in Westwood, MA had such good black raspberry, vanilla, buttercrunch, pistachio, and peppermint stick! I also like The half gallons that used to have coffee–orange sherbet– vanilla. Was it called Country Club? And didn’t one combine pistachio– vanilla–coffee?
Brighams peppermint stick is my very favorute with hot fudge and pecans after that i just love ice cream
I just checked my Fanny Farmer cookbook and it has a recipe for frozen pudding
It involves 2 steps 1 for the fruit and then one for the custard. Ive never wanted to try frozen pudding , however ive been making my own ice cream and i couldn’t beleive the webb didn’t have one after looking for myself i took out my Fannie Farmer cookbook and their it was, along with grape-nut ,ginger and maple
Hope this helps
I live in Phoenix, Az and the only place I have found Maple Walnut Icecream is on the Schwan Delivery Trucks. Tastes just like it came from New England. Love it! My favorite ice cream besides coffee.
I have tried all of the favorites. I love black raspberry, coffee and frozen pudding and hate grape nuts, which was my best friends’ favorite, and “can tolerate” maple walnut. I love cooking with maple syrup, but don’t think it really belongs in ice cream!!!!!!!! My real favorite has always been butter crunch and I also adore butter pecan. I will eat good chocolate, but it is not my favorite. They all make really good chocolate “fancy flavors”, but they are not my favorite. I also like rum raisin a lot. I have always enjoyed “boozy ice cream”!!!!!!!
When I was little I had a birthday party and my mom made grapenut ice cream and graham cracker ice cream, I love both of them, but, I also like rum rasin.
Hi, Aimee!! I have written several times to ask if you could get a recipe for frozen pudding ice cream–it is my very favorite and I’ve searched high and low for a recipe with no success. I’d like to make it here in Florida as I’m far away from New England. Can you help me get a recipe??? Many thanaks! Mary Mac Coral Springs FL
John’s in Liberty, Maine has the absolute best black raspberry. He does variations including chocolate black raspberry, and black raspberry with cream. So fresh you feel like you are eating fruit. We will fly about once a year from LA to Maine for this treat.
Born in Gloucester, MA, but have lived in MD and now VA. However, we visit Cape Anne often. All of the flavors are wonderful, but black raspberry or anything blueberry for me are my favs. My husband – a California guy – is constantly on the hunt for good ice cream – anything black raspberry for him…
From VA. Can’t find maple walnut, but not to worry. I purchase maple syrup by the gal when visiting our son in VT. I Purchase premium vanilla ice cream and top it with a generous portion of VT maple syrup and walnuts. Voila!
I grew up in Chicopee, MA. moved to Texas in 1952 and missed the Maple Walnut Ice Cream. Every time I went back home we went to Herrell’s in Northhampton, MA for Maple Walnut Ice Cream. What memories. Then about 4 years ago Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Stores ( Home Offices in Oklahoma)brought out Maple Walnut for one of their Holiday flavors and just kept it. It is almost as good as Herrell’s. I now live in Tyler, TX.
Indian pudding ice cream! Brown’s and the new place on its site in York, Maine (can’t remember the name) is one of the few places to serve this delicious flavor.
You are SO right!! The Indian Pudding with the Danish Cream!!! Nothing like it!
Bailey’s in Wolfeboro has offered frozen pudding, Bear Tracks and Butter Crunch since I was a camper there in 1955. Have a summer home there now, just for the ice cream!!
I grew up in Massachusetts, then spent a few decades “away”. Now I’m thrilled to be back, in Maine, and able to enjoy my two favorite flavors – black raspberry (also my grandmother’s favorite) and maple walnut.
Stone Fox Farm Creamery in Maine had been making super premium ice cream in these tasty flavors and more for years! And they use all natural, local ingredients whenever they can! The ice cream is SOOOO good! Check it out – stonefoxfarmcreamery.com!
Shaines of Maine makes delicious Indian Pudding ice cream for Browns and their successor on the Nubble in York.
Totally agree! I love the Indian pudding at Browns.
From Dedham, MA and I miss frozen pudding the most , black raspberry and maple walnut come in next. Miss them and can’t find them anywhere in Georgia.
No doubt, Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip and Maple Walnut are my faves but for a true New England experience you have to go to Benson’s Homemade Ice Cream in Boxford to get their very time limited, grown on property Peach Ice Cream. They can’t make it fast enough to keep up demand. People have bought a second freezer to buy up as much as they can to make it last!
I live in Nebraska. I have the hardest time finding plain coffee ice cream I haven’t seen Maple Walnut in years! I also miss Friendly’s chocolate almond chip ice cream and peanut butter sauce!
A few years ago for a couple of Christmas seasons Brighams put out on the retail level quarts of what I recall as Cranberry Almond Somethingorother; It was insanely delicious which of course means it disappeared. I’ll keep hoping for it’s return.
I’m now informed it was New England Cranberry Almond Crunch?
Can’t believe no one has mentioned Walpole creamery in Walpole New Hampshire. Best ginger, coconut, And one that has chocolate coconut Caramell combined. Heavenly
Let’s hear it for Maple Walnut! Pity the scoop shop that features Butter Pecan as a substitute. Just as I consider Dr. Pepper a Southern drink, and MOXIE the New England drink; so, too, Butter Pecan is Southern, and MOXIE is distinctly the flavor of New England. If you’ve not discovered Maple Walnut from Shain’s of Sanford, Maine, you haven’t lived!
Suggesting this flavor that I have yet to see anywhere, and predict it to become a rocking success when offered: VANILLA WALNUT!
I would have, but you beat me to it!
I scream for ice cream! Having to choose a favorite flavor is akin to picking a favorite child – they are ALL my favorite!! Well, maybe not Frozen Pudding – although it was a favorite of my Great Grandmother from Italy
It’s the most difficult decision of the week: which flavor to have at Peaceful Meadows (Whitman, MA). Maple walnut & coffee win the most often. But I hate to play favorites! I think I’ll head there right now & have a double scoop grapenut in a sugar cone (just so it doesn’t feel left out).
Blackrasberry was moms’ favorite. She like maple walnut also but switched after the nuts got to difficult to chew,,,, ???
We went to Peaceful Meadows frequently when I was a kid. My favorite was Grapenut. Now I live in NJ but we get to the Cape at least once a year and I search out places serving my old favorite.
Love to get a recipe for the Frozen Pudding ice cream.
Really miss frozen pudding ice cream. I live in rogers Texas now and my wife gets vanilla ice cream, let’s it melts and add,s fruit cocktail and some rum and freezes it. Closest to frozen pudding I can get.
“Fortunately, ice cream tastes just as good soft as it does rock-hard from the freezer.” Actually, it tastes better. The colder a substance is, the less you can taste it. The best way to eat ice cream so as to get the full flavor is to let it get a little melty. That warms it a few degrees and unlocks the true flavor. ALSO: As to frozen pudding ice cream, us greybeards will remember that some decades ago now both frozen pudding and rum raisin had a much stronger rum flavor. Today both are but pale shadows of what they once were, and that is due to the fact that the rum used then is no longer made. That was Caldwell’s Rum, made in Newburyport. To our great regret they went out of business some decades ago, but the rum they made was the most flavorsome ever distilled. This was due to the fact that unlike today’s rum from the Indies, which is distilled from sugar cane, rum made up here was distilled from molasses brought up by schooner from those parts. You can’t practically transport sugar cane, but molasses made from it was a steady cargo into Massachusetts, and a lot of rum was made here, both in Newburyport and Medford. Goodbye Caldwell’s, you are well-remembered by some, and there was nothing like it to flavor eggnog and hot buttered rum!
Caldwell’s Old Newburyport rum was made in Sommerville Ma by M.S.Walker. My father liked the 86 proof regular,but they also made a 100 proof rocket fuel. It was gone for many years,but it strangely re-appeared for a couple of years @ 1998? It tasted the same as I remembered it as a kid! ( we’d get some on our gums for a toothache ….yummmm.
Don’t get me wrong – it was originally from the shores of the Merrimac….but the Sommerville stuff was the same.
Unfortunately, Friendly’s has stopped serving maple walnut ice cream in their restaurants. Maybe this article will encourage them to change their minds.
Of these, my favorite is coffee. However, when I was a kid and we lived in New Jersey, coffee ice cream and maple walnut ice cream (which I don’t care for) were pretty common. I don’t see them as a peculiarly New England thing. I’ve never had grapenuts ice cream, although it sounds good, and it definitely sounds more like a regional flavor, along with frozen pudding. You once (back in the 1990s) published a recipe for peach ice cream; I used the recipe to make pear ice cream, which was quite nice. Thanks.
When you leave New England you leave the best ice cream in the world, especially frozen pudding. Have lived all over the U.S. and have never found it anywhere to compare. Living in Tucson have found coffee, but still miss the frozen pudding.
Shady Glen in Manchester/Bolton Town Line has ALL of those flavors. I thought you were writing an article on them when I saw the flavors. I love the Frozen Pudding and Grape nut. In the area…………stop at Shady Glen!
I love Shady Glenin Manchester/Bolton CT.
Now living in VT.outside Burlngton. We have
ISLAND ICE CREAM…made in small batches in “the Islands” a bit beyond Burlington. Their Blackraspberry & Maple Walnut along with their Coffee ice cream are to leave home for!
How could peppermint stick not be on this list!
Any flavor that Brigham’s made. Personal favorites were vanilla and Butter Pecan.
Until I recently encountered Shain’s (of Sanford, ME) at Village Ice Cream in Port Clyde, ME, Gifford’s (of Skowhegan, ME) was my favorite. As far as I’m concerned, Shain’s is now giving Gifford’s a run for the money…
Autocrat Coffe Milk ice cream from Warwick Ice Cream Co in RI is available in Pints and 3 gal tubs.All Natural,no GMO and Gluten free unless you want the one with cookies in it and the cookie is Organic. Available in most stores in RI and Nearby Mass. and Ct. taste is like a frozen glass of Coffee Milk.They also make Black Raspberry with or without choc. chips and yes they make Maple Walnut as well. outstanding stuff.
Maple Walnut was my grandmother’s favorite! On Sunday afternoons my Dad would take us out for a drive and bring my grandmother. We’d always stop at Howard Johnson’s for Ice cream and she’d always get MW. I know live in the midsouth, have lived in several other states, and cannot get this anywhere else! The closest is butter pecan, but definitely not the same thing!!
Sweet Ashley’s here in Norwalk CT has amazing Ginger ice cream, along with Coffee and Grape Nut! Delicious!
Here is another humongous shout out for Ginger Ice Cream! It is my extended family’s favorite hands-down! We have introduced many friends and family over the years and they are all now rabid Ginger Ice Cream lovers as well!! Living in Upstate New York now, I have even stupidly tried gingerbread man ice cream with the ridiculous hope it might taste a little like the Ginger Ice Cream of my childhood!! (I grew up in Rochester, MA and ate a lot of Ginger kat Frates in New Bedford, The Gulf Hill in Dartmouth and The Oxford Creamery in Mattapoisett) Ginger Ice Cream is somewhat more difficult to find today in New England, especially really good and creamy Ginger!! It always seems to be “we had it a couple of weeks ago…!! But, there is one place that always has it, and it is amongst the very best I have eaten..Flayvors of Cook Farm on 129 South Maple St., Hadley, MA!! Once I bought 5 quarts, took them home, and ate them in little over a week! By myself!! Thumbs up for Frozen Pudding, Rum Raisn, and Grapenut as well!
My mother”s favorite was maple walnut.I don”t buy it now because of family allergies to walnuts.Coffe is a winner for me,but vanilla is our choice,and my husband puts butterscotch on his,I sometimes put chocolate syrup on mine.
Christmastime they have peppermint stick and that is a winner for all of us!
My favorite ice cream is “Frozen Pudding” from Chandlers Ice Cream on Rte. 114 in Peabody, Massachusetts. This was a Great treat on “Special Occasions”. Now retired to Vermont where “Frozen Pudding” is not known. Does anyone remember “Chandlers Ice Cream”. I remember they were so busy on summer nights that either the city or state installed a traffic light to the outlet of their parking area. Rte. was always a busy area being close to the North Shore Shopping Center. Another busy ice cream with many flavors is “Richardsons Dairy in Middleton also on Rte. 114. Miss the Olé places.
Sadly Chandlers has closed.Richardsons was sold,but they still have the cows and make great ice cream. I love the frozen pudding from Cherry Hill Ice cream on Conant st in Danvers!
Richardson’s has the best grape Nut! I remember Chandlers, my mother loved their orange sherbet.
Not quite “New England” but I remember spending summers with my Grandparents in Lake Luzerne, NY (dude ranch country) and having ice cream every night. Love the coffee and Maple walnut, but my real favorite (and Grandmas’) was Lemon ice cream from the local pharmacy with a soda fountain counter. I can’t find lemon ice cream anywhere. These days I settle for coffee, and occasionally I can find maple walnut, my two favorites! Grandpa always got the biggest dish of ice cream!!
Common Man in NH makes a great lemon ice cream ( not sherbet).
I absolutely love maple walnut ice cream and it’s been years since I’ve had it. There are great ice cream makers here in California but sadly no maple walnut and black raspberry is unheard of here also. I actually had to show someone proof that black raspberries existed. ?
My grandfather (Poppy) used to take me to the Eli Whitney House Restaurant on Rt 9 in Westborough MA (long gone) for Black Raspberry Ice Cream and occasionally Butter Scotch Sundae. My Dad loved Maple Walnut. Poppy loved Frozen Pudding. Many happy memories of going for ice cream with each of them!
My mothers favorite was coffee, I don’t mind it for a change ,but I am more of a black raspberry, blueberry person. There is a great mom and pop stand in Weare, NH ( made on site) off rte77 .
How did Peppermint Stick not make the list???!
Trips to Brigham’s for two scoops of Peppermint Stick in a sugar cone with Chocolate Jimmies. Fondest childhood memories for this Bostonian kid.
Maple Walnut!
I’m from Boston, now live in Pa and the one thing I miss is Frozen Pudding ice cream. I’m visiting this summer and hope I can still find it. I used to get it from Hood’s Dairy but I don’t even know if they’re in business anymore.
Frozen Pudding only comes out from sometime in Nov to early Jan, this year I’ve had an impossible time finding it
Is there anywhere in the Brunswick ME area that has frozen pudding? Many years ago, Brighams had some in pints at a local grocery store at Christmas. Haven’t seen it since!
try the ice cream stand in Topsham on the road to Lewiston
I live in Manchester CT now and Shady Glen makes all 5 favorites!!!!!
I never drink coffee, just do not like it, but oh how I love coffee ice cream and it is about all I eat. Back in the early 1940s my father built a diner in Fitzwilliam, NH at the crossing of Routes 119 and 12. My mother ran it, and I helped. We went to Boston to the Hood Company main office for a day to learn how to make everything Hood had to offer in ice cream dishes and drinks. Each day at closing time, I made myself a 3 scoop banana split with 3 scoops, of course, coffee ice cream, topped with butterscotch syrup, chopped walnuts, and a bit of whipped cream, no cherry thank you. I like Friendly’s coffee ice cream OK, but prefer the bit stronger coffee flavor of Hood’s. I still have 6 of the diner banana split dishes and do love to make myself an old fashioned banana split with coffee ice cream now and then! At 92 years of age, I still cannot imagine any ice cream dish that can match Hood’s coffee ice cream banana split! My favorite drink was a Hood’s coffee ice cream soda that we made with real cream, coffee flavoring, fizz water (seltzer) and 2 large scoops of coffee ice cream, served with a long spoon and long straw! Stir the lower scoop of ice cream into the fizz water for a rich flavor and enjoy.
Difficult to find a place that even knows how to make an ice cream soda these days. Friendly’s will make one for me with my instructions! Mm-mm good!
What about Peach ice cream? I live in NH now but grew up in RI. I do have a hard time finding it in the stores, last time I think it was Friendly’s brand that made it.
Crescent ridge, in Sharon ma, my favorite, scoop of coffee, with a scoop of orange sherbet on top!
I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia where I was able to get all those flavours at most of my favourite stops –
It would seem Yankee tastes and east coast Canadian tastes are similar – not surprising, considering we were settled by yankees, I guess.
A sure test of any ice cream makers art is their Old Fashion Vanilla. In NE, Giffords is best with the Puritan. of Manchester NH running a close second. The best summer I’ve cream is good old fashion PEACH. Hard to find it locally anymore. Have to travet to Georgia to find the well made kind. Wake up NE! You’re missing the boat!
Would love to get Frozen Pudding ice cream tecipe. Cannot find one. From Gloucester, MA. Now in california and cannot find recipe or ice cream.
Peppermint stick! With chocolate jimmies!
I remember getting BLACK RASPBERRY as a kid somewhere in RI. I loved it – it was purple!
And now I can get it AZ – with chocolate chunks!
About black raspberry…the purple coloring, while harmless,has an interesting side affect…if you eat, say, a whole point,it,well…. let’s put it this way… something that is normally brown comes out a vivid GREEN…I was personally initially alarmed at this phenomenon,until I put two and two together…pun intended.
I agree with one of the first commenters–why can’t we get a recipe for frozen pudding ice cream? I have tried to get messages thru to Aimee asking for one, but never get an answer— I would LOVE to have a recipe for frozen pudding ice cream–can’t you help, Yankee, pulleeeeeeeeeeze???
Just went through the comments and find two of my earlier requests for a frozen pudding recipe, plus several pleas from others for the same thing—can’t you help us Yankee?? Do you read these comments???We’re counting on you–you provided recipes for the other 4 flavors–why is frozen pudding so hard??? I am pleading with you to print such a recipe so we can all make our treasured frozen pudding once again–PLEASE! You are the keeper of all things New England–is frozen pudding NOT New England???
Love all of these but also love Maine Wild Blueberry!!! I’ve been transplanted from the North Shore of MA to the DC area and boy do i miss my ice cream! Just came back from the Cape and had my fill of blueberry ice cream, losbstah, chowdah and fried clams. Homesick already!!!
When asking for Maple Walnut in scoop shops that don’t serve it I often get the reply, “But we have Butter Pecan” to which I respond with, “Maple Walnut is ‘Northern’, Butter pecan is ‘Southern’.”
Goldenrod Drive-in/restaurant in Manchester, NH offers all these flavors plus Butter Pecan (my personal favorite), and everything they offer is delicious.
And when it comes to Black Raspberry ice cream, I don’t remember getting a Black Raspberry frappe ANYWHERE that I didn’t like.
And if you like coffee ice cream but NOT coffee, try picking up a container of coffee milk in a GLASS bottle (many of the Hannaford’s in New England carry the product supplied by local creameries ); sweetly delicious and habit-forming.
Pinecroft Dairy, West Boylston – Black Raspberry! Can also find this here in FL at one of the few Friendly stores remaining, but, not quite as good. Coffee is second runner up! Commercially, cannot find Black Raspberry without chocolate chips which is just not the same.
I’m born and raised in NJ. Absolutely love coffee ice cream and shakes! Also love black raspberry. That’s one of my favorites. Rum raisin is good so would love to try your pudding ice cream. Not sure I’d like the grape nuts. Like the maple flavor so I’m certain that would be delicious. I enjoy butter pecan which might be similar? My other two favorites are peach and cherry vanilla. So NJ is similar to New England!! ????
Maple Walnut and Black Rasberry are my top favorites! Used to get maple walnut on a sugar cone st Maple Shade in Guilford CT as a kid. Haven’t been outside of New England much so was quite surprised to hear those ice creams are not common in other parts of the country! Just two more reasons why New England is the place to be!
I have lived in New Hampshire all of my 64 years. What about Maine Blueberry or blueberries and cream ice cream! My 2nd favorite to coffee ice cream. I love coffee ice cream (though many places have very little coffee flavor.
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Have you tried Gifford’s Camp Coffee ice cream? It has the most coffee flavor of any I’ve tried.
my wife and I would go and she would have orange pineapple oh so good. Loved that place and miss . I would get the vanilla frappe nothing like it.
I have lived in Connecticut for 54 years and I have never seen or heard of frozen pudding ice cream. How did I miss that? I love pudding, so I will have to try it. Of course I love black raspberry and peach, and maple walnut ice cream. Friendly’s makes those flavors. Aren’t they national, or is it just for the New England market? A local place makes soft serve maple, made with real maple syrup. But the best ice cream you will ever put in your mouth is the red raspberry chocolate chip from Tulmeadow Farms in West Simsbury Connecticut. You will never find a more creamy tasting ice cream. Their peach is to die for as well. They also make lemon ice cream which is unusual. Most places just have lemon sorbet. You can get blueberry as well. If you are anywhere in New England, make a pilgrimage to this place before you die. And bring a big cooler, because you will be transporting containers of this stuff home!
I really don’t understand how peppermint stick didn’t make the cut.
I agree, my favorite!
I’m a New Englander currently living in downstate Illinois. I remember my mom and sisters really liked coffee ice cream, but I could never develop a taste for it. When we moved to the Midwest, we had a hard time finding coffee ice cream. Howard Johnson’s was about the only place that had it. It’s still not that pervasive outside NE, but it’s a little easier to find. And I’ve gotten so I like coffee ice cream now, though I never did care for hot coffee. Things such as iced coffee and coffee drinks such as Dunkin Donuts’ Coolatta or Starbuck’s Frappucino, I do like.
Orange-pineapple – only at Pinecroft Dairy, West Boylston, MA!
Orange-Pineapple is a staple flavor at Farfar’s in Duxbury, Danish extra creamy ice cream made right on the premises. Amazing!
I grew up in NY and coffee ice cream has been my favorite for 65 years. One of my early jobs was in a Dallas, TX Baskin-Robbins, and after tasting hundreds of flavors, coffee was still favorite. Of course, I would not rate B-R great ice cream these days.
When I lived in Maine, the local blueberry was a summer favorite, and one place even served both in soft serve – not the add in syrup, real flavors. Long time ago so can’t recall where. But now I’ve been in W.MA 10 years and Herrell’s beats most places hands-down for quality and flavors, where my standard favorite of theirs has been burnt sugar and butter, and occasional variations on coffees or hazelnuts. But the local Bart’s containers of maple ice cream compare with any store bought fare. How can you not mention maple – pure maple, no walnuts. Sorry I personally don’t want nuts and extras added in generally. I’m an ice cream purist. Maple is standard fare here and nowhere else I’ve lived. [which also includes Iowa, Houston, Raleigh, Brooklyn, NJ, Sydney].
I admit, I had broken my ice cream habit in Houston. Except for containers of coffee HaagenDaz, I could pass up the ice cream and had created a yen for the tart frozen yogurt of one local Houston place not a chain. But moving to W.MA the locally made ice cream is so superbly better, it is impossible to ignore. Still, I’m disappointed to rarely see blueberry here.
But wait, there is one definitive NE ice cream here that blew me away… blew other people away after I ate it, but truly surprisingly delicious – garlic ice cream. Made for Garlic Fest, real cloves of garlic mixed into sweet cream ice cream. The balance of distinct fresh garlic against sweet cream could only be made better if they used maple… lol So much garlic that the kickback later – not so good – but for taste, amazing. Sadly, any other time or place, you have to make your own.
Native New Englander here. Whenever I go to an ice cream shop I’ve not been to before, I will always order maple walnut. That is my benchmark. If they can’t get it right, I won’t go back to try the other flavors
Jordan’s in Belmont,NH makes great orange pineapple, apple pie ice cream. Seasonal flavors like pumpkin are also yummy!
I’ve lived in Maine for over 60 years and I really like Coffee Ice Cream. We now reside a good part of the year in Georgia where you can’t get decent Coffee Ice Cream. (very little Coffee flavor) I do have a fondness for Rum Raisin if the raisons are marinated, Black Rasberry and Blueberry. There is a local shop, Spencers Ice Cream in Bradley, ME, that makes a Blueberry Rubarb that is to die for.
My first love frozen pudding and can’t get outside Mass. Whites dairy in Acushnet Mass. had great frozen pudding. Understanding frozen pudding not possible I would settle for new england country club harlequin – vanilla, coffee, orange sherbert – have taken to buying separately and building my own.
Brigham’s chocolate chip was my favorite growing up
Vanilla sundae with hot fudge
Sundae in downtown Boston with hot fudge dripping on silver plate below dish. Can’t beat those old treats and can’t remember name of ice cream shoppe in Boston near train station at the Commons. Living in Canada I haven’t found any ice cream to beat New England. Drooling just remembering. Thanks for the memories
I believe it was Baileys
It was Bailey’s… And …. Probably only an older New Englander, Boston Shopper would remember!
Although I enjoy all the flavors featured above…
EXCEPT Grapenut!!! My all time fav is the Orange Pineapple from Rota Spring Farms in Sterling Ma…
Nice Farm Store too!!!
But… The Very Best Black Raspberry I have ever had
was in Strausburg, PA….
Happy Summer New England and happy journeying for the BEST Ice Cream!!!
My daughter worked at Bailey’s in Wellesley for many years. I love the hot-fudge Sunday with the topping falling out of the cup!!!
Grew up in Wellesley! Baileys was THE BEST!!!
Bailey’s fudge sauce and marshmallow sauce on the pewter plate! Yum!
Bailey’s mint chocolate chip was to die for! I’ve never been able to find anything similar since they closed!
Bailey’s!!! Up the stone steps, sitting on the heart-shaped twisted metal backed ice-cream chairs… The giant hot fudge sundaes, with HOT fudge and melted real marshmallow oozing in slo-mo from the pewter high-stemmed bowl to the pewter saucer… Loved their toffee chip ice-cream! Special days, mid-1960s, right across from Boston Common.
The restaurant was Schraftt’s. So glad you remember it too.
In the 1950’s my Dad would often end a Sunday drive with a visit to Webster’s Ice Cream in Stoughton, MA. Unfortunately, it’s long gone, but the memories live on! All their flavors were fabulous, but my favorite was their Orange Sherbet. It was not creamy, but icy. And the flavor was indescribable! Today, if I’m craving really good ice cream, I’ll drive to Franklin, MA, to treat myself with scrumptious flatbread pizza AND homemade (from scratch) ice cream at Spruce Pond Creamery/Franklin Flatbread Pizza. I love their Grapenut and Coffee Bean, and, of course, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup!
Moosetrax is #1 with me
I spent my early childhood in Endicott, NY. IBM land and the home of Pat Mitchell’s homemade ice cream. My gramma and I would buy a pint of root beer ice cream and a pint of cantaloupe ice cream and share them because I could never choose which one I wanted. I crave that cantaloupe ice cream now and have never found it anywhere else! Hint, hint Ben and Jerry’s!! When we moved to Boston area I developed a love for black raspberry and coffee ice cream. Also, Brigham’s chocolate chip with jimmies was a favorite and that was made in my new hometown, Arlington! But my real favorite now is banana ice cream which is also hard to find! I guess what I’m saying is I’m always able to find something I love, but cantaloupe and banana take the cake or should I say ‘cone’ in this case!!
JayGee’s on 28 in Salem (NH) has 2 kinds of banana ice cream. They make great ice cream overall….
I thought cantelope was ONLY at the Four Seas in Centerville MA! The best ever, only open in summer, looks the same as it did in 1970. Bates Farm in Carlisle MA was a childhood fav, it’s now a Kimball’s and still good. Richardson’s on 114 in Middleton MA is a treat. If I’m not at 4Seas, I’ll always opt for ginger, no one has mentioned that!
Round Top in Maine makes a cinnamon ice cream that is to die for, perfect with a slice of warm apple pie!
Oregon has great ice cream. the best of which are aldens from eugene, umpqua from roseburg and especially tillamook. Tillamook has great coffee ice cream. Born in N H, I do miss those flavors from New England, especially coffee and frozen pudding.
Brighams ice cream usually sells a Frozen Pudding flavor in grocery stores at Christmastime.
We have it year round at Daddy’s Dairy ????
I’ve had them all. Of the five, my fave is coffee and then maple walnut. My grandmother loved frozen pudding. I can’t hear that name without thinking of her. I come from a long line of super ice cream fans!????
Looks like Coffee is a big favorite. Try it in a root-beer float. THE BEST.
I see a lot of long gone places mentioned but I do not see Neponset Valley Farm. It was on route 1 in Norwood, MA. The cows were out back of the store. There must have been 10 or 12 serving windows. As I remember it all of the flavors were great.
there are recipes for frozen pudding ice cream and many others in the Boston Cooking School Cookbook by Fannie Farmer. Fannie Farmer is a goldmine for many New England recipes.
Growing up in Uxbridge, MA, our go-to ice cream places were either Janet’s in Slatersville, RI or Flag’s Drug Store in Whitinsville. Flag’s cones were super-sized before that was a popular concept and cost only 10 cents. Janet’s was a very popular drive-up shop. My favorite flavors were Black Raspberry and Orange-Pineapple. My mom loved both Coffee and Maple Walnut flavors.
Fell in love with my first taste of Tutti-Frutti back in the 50″s but the 50’s are gone and so is Tutti-Frutti. The closest I can come to that fruity deliciousness is Frozen Pudding from the incomparable Memories farmstand ice cream in Kingston NH. No rum flavor that I noticed, just fruity heaven
Fielder’s Choice (Maine) serves Baked Indian Pudding ice cream and if you like Indian pudding, you’ll like this. Spencer’s also serves a molasses ice cream, very good as well.
MA classics gone but not forgotten: Howard Johnson’s, Baileys, Swensons, Chadwicks….sigh:(
No mention of UHLMANS ICE CREAM in Westboro Ma. they are the best. Love their Frozen Puddings.
Grew up in Fall River and our go to was Guimond Farms in Assonet MA for ice cream. When my cousin bought a convertible we were in heaven driving there for ice cream. Frozen Pudding will always remind me of my Memere!
My favorite place for ice cream is Big Daddy’s in Wells Maine. We always go to Wells for vacation and after supper we go to Big Daddy’s and I always order Walnut Fudge!
Growing up in South Berwick Maine is special in itself for me…but my Dad made us home made Grapenut Ice Cream, and it’s always been my favorite. To this day 80 years later I am happy that I can still find it at shops near me in Kennebunk. It’s on my agenda now that it summer and the shops are open. xx
Go to Duck Duck Go (or google) and type in frozen pudding recipe. You’ll come up with options.
I just love ice cream, and enjoy trying new flavors, but my most favorite is Brighams peppermint stick in a sugar cone with jimmies, or with hot fudge sauce has been my favorite since I was a kid, I’ve tried other peppermint stick ice cream but Brighams is the best by far in my book. Fannie Farmer cookbook has a recipe for frozen pudding it was one of my mom’s favorite.
NEW While at college during the 1960s, I worked summers at Brigham’s in Harvard Square. I was required to take their “ice cream clinic” to learn the ropes. what if(s). hygiene, how to make a proper cone, use of the huge jimmy (stainless steel) bowl. etcetera. On my very first day in June, a grade school teacher arrived with 24 students in tow and she ordered 25 ice cream cones with jimmies! What a scene! I was up to my elbows in ice cream, different flavors, topped with jimmies that you rolled the cone in the steel bowl. Needless to say, there were more (dropped) scoops into that huge bowl! My uniform was unrecognizable!
I served ice cream there and often visited Sunnyhurst Farms (youth) in Reading, MA (gone), Brown’s on Cape Neddick in York, Maine (gone), The Goldenrod in York Beach, Maine, Kimball’s in Westford. MA and a stint at Brigham’s in Lowell, MA in winter on semester break. Shaw Farm in Dracut. MA is my favorite as they seem to be the only ones around that make grapenut ice cream, my absolute favorite. Then I discovered Richardson’s on Route 114 (now sold)! Coffee is a second favorite and mocha chip a third! At 75, I can’t go more than a day without my 1/2 cup mid-evening indulgence (for Vitamin D, of course). The most frequently ordered general public flavors were vanilla, chocolate, black raspberry, orange pineapple back then; my father’s favorites were maple walnut and frozen pudding! Precious memories.
This lifetime Iowan, puts a vote in for Peaceful Meadows in Plymonth, Mass. In the dozens of trips to Plymonth, it is always required to visit Peaceful Meadows, once (at least) daily to enjoy the Maple Walnut. K.R.C.
When I was a kid, we’d go to Week’s Dairy Bar in Laconia, New Hampshire, for the best ice cream and banana splits. Unfortunately, Week’s is long gone but we still remember it with fond memories.
Definitely going to co-sign on Peaceful Meadows: best blueberry cheesecake and M&M ice creams I have ever had